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My Other Half With That Thy Gentle Hand Seized Mine I Yielded
“I lay back in the heap of cords, which spawned and propagated from a bud, a navel, the hub of the Mimir, which still ran hot and loud a few minutes into the cooldown protocol.”
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Symphysis
At midnight I woke membered to the night with violent blood and pale gashes swimming wild courses through the dark. Some blast from my dream rang shrilly over my ears like frantic veils.
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Modern Love
“We went a year without sleeping with one another. The act of speaking was already intimate enough.”
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Signs of Damage
“He looked nice, shy. She didn’t say hello, or smile, because despite her costume—a lace trimmed slip and her grandmother’s pearl choker—she didn’t care much that day.”
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How Prophecy was Invented
“In another town, she was a storyteller, but the children had spit back her stories wrong, turning the characters into parodies of themselves.”
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A Winter’s Loan
“Hidden deep within his heart, he knew this was not his home, and that the cabin’s true owner would inevitably come in the summer once the flowers were in full-bloom.”
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Rabbit-hearted, Spring Will Come
“I wish for nothing more than sunlight and steady dreaming – I promise that one of these days we’ll be barefoot and sundazed.”
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The Interview
A Nass writer interviews Rupert Birkin, a central character of D.H. Lawrence’s novel Women in Love.
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The Crybaby
“She never quite found the words to explain it, but her tears didn’t come from a place of empathy—rather, they reflected something missing inside her.”
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Soft Spots
“He wondered if this was the closest he would ever get to her and if that was such a terrible thing.”