Category Archives: Women’s Issues

I WAKE UP STICKY

Posted on January 26, 2012 by susan

I wake up sticky. My eyes hurt open. The room is still grey with dawn. My brain a cloud of half-sleep with wisps of half-awareness. He snores beside me, whiskey-raucous, deep and drowning. Why do my eyes hurt? My mouth … Continue reading →

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336/365 – NIGHT FEAR

Posted on December 8, 2011 by susan

Word Count: 409 Anne stuck her arms through the day and pulled it around her. Buttoned it up to her chin. She used bright white soft clouds for earmuffs and mittens, now ready to make her way home through the … Continue reading →

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272/365 – REINCARNATION

Posted on October 2, 2011 by susan

Word Count: 270 In a past life I was a sugar maple tree. Men with metal cut into my skin. My sap flowed like blood at their touch. My children were seeded with the wind until I grew old and … Continue reading →

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267/365 – MAY AND DECEMBER

Posted on September 27, 2011 by susan

Word Count: 263 You look at me differently though you say no, that’s not true. And I don’t have the courage to push it. Ten years between twenty and thirty is nothing. I was a woman compared to the girls … Continue reading →

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247/365 – KEISHA

Posted on September 4, 2011 by susan

Word Count: 697 Keisha was the name she gave us. She said she had no father and no last name. We wrote her down as Keisha B. We already had a Keisha A. She was about twelve though she told … Continue reading →

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069/100 aka 209/365

Posted on July 30, 2011 by susan

GOLDEN EARRINGS Word Count: 346 I have at least one out of every pair of earrings I’ve ever owned since my ears were pierced at age ten and that includes the cheap one I hid in the bed of a … Continue reading →

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67/100 aka 207/365

Posted on July 28, 2011 by susan

THE LITTLE BLACK DRESS Word Count: 360 The little black dress was bought for her first college dance. Mini-skirt short, rolling into and over the lush curves of her hips. Seductively low at the neck and thin little cap sleeves. … Continue reading →

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037/100 aka 177/365

Posted on June 27, 2011 by susan

MENSES Word Count: 430 On Wednesday she went to the mall, giving in to her natural instinct to follow the light. She saw a mother with too many children, a bevy of nuns, a flotilla of teenagers with purple-pink hair … Continue reading →

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004/100 aka 144/365

Posted on May 24, 2011 by susan

AS THINGS SHOULD BE IN A NATURAL ORDER Word Count: 268 His hand is rough hewn hickory, dead-heavy and cold on my breast. His body is rounded yet woven by muscles that flex at the quick switch of rage. The … Continue reading →

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