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  • The Invisible Girls
    Stories | The Village Voice

    The Invisible Girls

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    Patty rests fitfully in a hallway, the plastic bag with her and her sister Michelle’s clothes nearby. “I hate it when she falls asleep,” Michelle says. “Everybody goes through our stuff.” Patty’s tired. Patty’s “sick.” “She can’t go out,” Michelle says. “I’m gonna have to do it all now. Help her through the night.”

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  • The Only Girl in the Car – A Remembrance of Promiscuity
    Harper's Magazine | Stories

    The Only Girl in the Car – A Remembrance of Promiscuity

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    As a child, I courted simplicity and goodness. I’d fill a soup bowl with water, add leaves from the hedge, and eat it with a doll’s spoon, slowly, until I was calm. The world was gorgeous and terrible-lightning, God, my father in a suit, the mere thought of my mother asleep … My passions disheveled me.

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