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The History of Your Mouth by Nathan Alling Long

aulapress — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 01:13:22 +0000

Every time I kiss you I think about the history of your mouth, your first kiss, the way your lips must have felt, and what other lips felt like to you. Then I think of all the people you have kissed, the lovers, romances, mistakes. I imagine them all kissing you while I am kissing ... Read more

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When My Mother Died by Nathan Alling Long

aulapress — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 01:11:37 +0000

When my mother died, Easter was just a few squares away. The day felt like a porcelain basket of fruit dropped to the ground. A thousand bottles of red wine flowed across the living room floor and I felt the miscarriage begin of the child I had carried my entire life. I became someone without ... Read more

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Bathing While Fat by Tiara DeGuzman

aulapress — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 03:41:59 +0000

Understand that everyone bathes differently. When you’re fat and in a bath, every movement becomes an event, and every event occurs on the surface. This is not Shamu’s pool, and though you wish to dive, to flatten yourself under water, to decrease the amount of curvage peaked above, realize it will prove impossible. You are ... Read more

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Shampagne by Mary Carroll-Hackett

aulapress — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 02:47:24 +0000

Shampagne we swiped from Meeks’ Country Store wasn’t champagne at all, but white grape juice, Welch’s, in a single serve bottle with a stained label, but out in the mid-seventies dark, running plowed-under tobacco fields, sparklers sputtering in our hands, we pretended, boasted, toasting each other as we passed the bottle between us, dirty-faced dreamers ... Read more

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Grace Where You Find It By Mary Carroll-Hackett

aulapress — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 02:46:09 +0000

And there was no dance, no holy place from which we were absent. ~Sappho Talk me down, if you can. There is so much to be dangerous about. There is that knowing that has shimmered just beyond me as long as I can remember, disarticulated light, shivers like streetlight glimmers on a hotel window. Below, ... Read more

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