I’m here if you need to talkThen I could smirk, like in the movies when the good guy swings at the bad guy but it doesn’t hurt the way it was supposed to, and the good guy gets a look like “oh no” and the bad guy smugly straightens his jaw.
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Jessica Dawn
Jessica Dawn lives on an island in the San Francisco Bay with a failed farm dog, where she writes fiction and non-fiction, where she tries her best. Her work is in HAD, No Contact, Autofocus, Pidgenholes, and more. Find her on Twitter @JuskaJames
Alameda, CA, United States
Selected work (6 publications)
A Tour of Artificial Islands“If we break up, at least you can say you learned something,” I say, and we both laugh, and the seagulls wail overhead. They were wailing with us, all joy and triumph. What did they know! What did they know?
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Fire SeasonThey say there is so much ash that if it was all piled together it would weigh as much as an aircraft carrier, and maybe that is a lot because an aircraft carrier is big, or maybe it is not so much because an aircraft carrier can float.
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HeavyI am eighteen. I turned nineteen a couple months ago but they tell me to keep saying I’m eighteen, it’s a better age anyway. The singer is twenty-five but really thirty-six. She has stayed twenty-five for years. How many years will I stay eighteen?
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