I’m participating in the Summer Love Notes project this summer. (If you’d like to contribute, feel free to drop me a line.) Here’s an excerpt from my piece “SwimTime,” which ran on June 8th. She drapes her pink and white striped beach towel across the arms of one of the patio chairs and leaves her […]
But she’ll enjoy the experience, even so, because he’ll lure her in with assurances that he’ll treat her the same, that her lips won’t know the difference.
a lipogram It had begun, like much did, at a bar. There hadn’t been a band that night. Rather, the entertainer had been a magician, of a kind. The title he’d claimed had been “Mental Deceiver,” but I remain certain that he were better called a charlatan or conniver. The food and liquor had […]
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