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Every nine seconds a woman in the United States is assaulted or beaten. I wasn’t going to wait another nine to get out of that house on July 27th 2012. 69% of family violence against a son or daughter takes place at the victim’s home. Like the rest of the…
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SILENT SPACES
Any given day My father is awake at 5 am. He makes coffee in a brass pot in the kitchen, pours it into a porcelain mug, and drinks it black. He walks slowly to the garage in his socks, lights up a Pall Mall menthol, and looks at his…
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FIRST SNOW
The first snow always reminds me of you and brings with it an intense melancholy. I can’t help but look out the window and be saddened by the thought of you 1000 miles away in the bed of someone that I don’t know. Four years ago at this time we…
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AN ANDROGYNOUS ACQUAINTANCE
by Esther Forbin The first time I met Shadow I was tripping. It was the first week of college and I had a bad case of mushroom poisoning. He curled up in my lap for hours on end, sitting on the bench on our front lawn. He was thin,…
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IT’S MY SISTER’S 15TH BIRTHDAY
Exactly fifteen years ago, my little sister was brought into this wonderful, confusing, tumultuous clusterfuck of a world. Where has the time gone? Generally, I am not what one would call sentimental, but because I cannot be with her on her big day –and because freshmen year royally sucked –…
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MISTAKEN FOR THE MOON
by emily wilner The hotel is under construction. We’’ve left our super classy and extremely effective Country- Time-lemonade-and-12-shots concoction somewhere in a snowbank along the way, for the birds. For the birds! My drunken companion, who had been carrying the drink, keeps repeating this in a loud, singsongy voice and…
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CIXELSYD DYSLEXIA
When life gives you lemons you make lemonade, unless you’re dyslexic then life gives you melons. Good One. I feel bad for dyslexic children when they try to write to Santa but instead write to Satan. Right. So, like, if you’re dyslexic can you not read? And here we go.…
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LIVING THE QUESTIONS
“…have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to…
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HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
I took a girl named Katie to the prom. I bought her a bouquet of flowers and a card when I asked her. I left them on the table in front of the Dairy Queen where we were supposed to meet. She cried. She was beautiful. She had red…
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POPPING THE PERSONAL SPACE BUBBLE
Proxemics Syllabification: (prox·e·mics) Pronunciation: /präkˈsēmiks/ noun [treated as singular] the branch of knowledge that deals with the amount of space that people feel it necessary to set between themselves and others. Proxemics. According to proxemics, there are four different types of space that we deal with, consciously and subconsciously, on a daily basis;…
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