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Pat Ellis Taylor
Pat Ellis Taylor lives and writes in Austin, Texas. Several of her stories have appeared in The Sun, including “News from El Corazon: In the Composing Room,” and “Birdseye.”
Fiction
Entering The House Of The ’Lord
For the first time I wonder if I have gone too far, overlooking too many potential danger signs in this landlord/tenant relationship, and maybe I should ask for my money back, take the lease form from the wife’s hands where it is lying and tear it into pieces, but then I decide that I am as worthy of two walls of windows and a murphy bed on swiss avenue as anyone else.
January 1982
Fiction
A Neighbor At The Door
Then leo is saying listen, why don’t you come home with us for a cup of coffee, so I say really, like I have heard wifey-hostesses say all my life, and there is a flash of some kind of remembering across judas’s face that when people are being social this is the kind of thing they say and do.
November 1981
Fiction
Birdseye
We know something at the same time — we need to get out quick, Hal is already out, and Chuck is out on the other side, Anne and I are scrambling out, then we’re in the middle of the road in a little group, all looking at the illuminated bird. As the bird stands still in the air, I get an old ecstatic feeling of being overcome.
August 1981
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