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Reading June 2, 2007
"Embedded With Mangoes
in the Garden of Duelling Delights"
"What Happens Here Stays Here:" painting
Nicole Gordon (more)
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"What Happens Here Stays Here:"
story excerpt
Julia Klatt Singer
The last thing I remember was 1984, dancing
to the Talking Heads, Burning Down the House, in the front
room of a friend of a friend’s apartment in Chicago.
The room was crowded and hot, the smell of pot in the air,
and then I was feeling really really tired. I was at the party
with a friend of mine, Robin, but she was nowhere in sight
when I suddenly felt the urge to lie down, so I asked where
the bathroom was, figuring a bed wouldn’t be but a door
or two away.” She is spinning back and forth slowly
as she talks. The two drinks he bought her are gone and Dick
is making them more.
“I found a dark room that smelled like
snow. The window was open a couple inches and it was cold
outside.... (more)
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"Palaces and Fountains:" story
Carla Hagen
I warned them. They all think I’m just a low-life private
eye, doing surveillance for scorned spouses, hacking into
crooked computers that house corporate secrets, doing all
the boring work cops don’t want to do. But that’s
not all. I hear things in my line of work. Secrets. Some
of them so volatile I’d be crazy to tell them....
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