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  Backpacking Bodies

  

  By writer13, Denver, CO

  each stagger imprinted itself with a Venetian canal running down our flesh, as we shook our bare bodies into the barren earth, we pulled each other’s hair and said we smelled like roses. we settled comfortably into our thin jumpsuits of wilderness my stomach grew comfortably taut, our...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Lips..

  

  By writer13, Denver, CO

  When she was born, they wanted a normal child, which she was, thank God. Bald head, petite fingernails that her sister kissed, and screaming lips wrapped around naked gums. When she was three, she knew no shame, because no one had told her that a round tummy wasn’t to be flaunted or pale skin w...
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  Balloons

  

  By writer13, Denver, CO

  I can feel you floating up up and away like balloons that our eight-year-old fingertips cramped from holding on too tight, and like a silent movie our lips puckered into perfect O’s never realizing how infinite these things can be. But I don’t think it’s like that this time. The infin...