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Dance, Gladys, Dance

Dance, Gladys, Dance

by Cassie Stocks
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tagged : contemporary women, literary
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Chapter One
She Needs The Room To Bake

I had no point of navigation but I was hell-bent on finding my way to Ordinary. I didn’t know what I hoped to find on that voyage or, God forbid, at the end of it, but I knew there was nothing but bilge rats and bullshit on the course I’d been following.

I still awoke at night as if in midthought. That copy of Emerson’s Essays … did Norman keep it? I’d be compelled to run downstairs to the storage room and root through the boxes I brought back from Kentucky with me. First, though, I had to rouse Ginny to find the key. Ginny tolerated these wakings only twice, and then, griping about delusional roommates, she had a copy of the key made and hung it by the condo’s front door.

It’s a physical deficiency you feel in the middle of the night after a breakup. Oh shit, you lie there thinking. It’s not the books or the brassieres—I’ve left my thighs in his spare closet.

Along with my ex, Norman, and possibly some missing-inaction body parts, I’d abandoned my creative spirit in Kentucky too, left it disintegrating underneath a tree beside the Barren River (symbolically enough), buried alongside the last paintings I swore I would ever do.

Ginny had left the newspaper on the kitchen table folded open to the employment section, alongside a conspicuously placed red pen. I sat down at the table and wriggled in the chair. Ginny’s condo is the Shrine to Design: titanium white walls, ebony floors, leather furniture, and none of the clocks had numbers. I could never tell what time it was, not that I had anything to be late for. The two kitchen chairs were Bertoia Wire Chairs, sans cushions. The wire frame was incredibly uncomfortable and my butt would be dented like a reverse waffle when I stood up. If the other items in the room and I were featured in a certain Sesame Street game, I’d be one of the things that’s not like the others.

I unfolded the paper and turned past the help-wanted ads to the furniture-for-sale column. I’d be getting my own place again, someday. It didn’t cost anything to look and I wanted to feast my eyes on the cost of a nice flat-bottomed kitchen chair.

Underneath the amazing queen mattress & box, cost over $1100, sell $495, there it was:

B E A U T I F U L old phonograph for sale. 78 record player.
Excellent condition. Gladys doesn’t dance anymore.
She needs the room to bake. Bring offer. Ph. 254-9885.

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Dancing In a Jar

Dancing In a Jar

by Adele Poynter
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tagged : biographical, contemporary women
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Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You

Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You

by Donna Decker
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tagged : contemporary women, literary
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Degrees of Nakedness

Degrees of Nakedness

by Lisa Moore
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tagged : short stories (single author), contemporary women
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El Niño

El Niño

by Nadia Bozak
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tagged : literary, hispanic & latino, contemporary women
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Epic Game

Epic Game

by William Kowalski
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tagged : contemporary women, family life, urban life
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Fallsy Downsies

Fallsy Downsies

by Stephanie Domet
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tagged : urban life, literary, contemporary women
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Fear of Fighting

Fear of Fighting

by Stacey May Fowles, illustrated by Marlena Zuber
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tagged : literary, contemporary women, urban life
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