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Halfway up University, in front of Walt’s Drugs, I said, “Mom, I’ve never had an orgasm with a man.” I said the “with a man” under my breath but it got us off placemats. When mother was surprised she’d get a little smile on her top lip.
By Adele LevinJune 1985i can see the worst all right — the earth exploding in some climactic chain reaction and all of us going off sparking out at the same time and i think i am going to like it if it happens that way after all we’ll be learning something together something massive that we’ve been trying to understand for a while and in that final sparking and arcing of the earth’s blow-up we’ll finally get it we’ll understand
By Pat Ellis TaylorJanuary 1985Learning the proper name for magic; laughing at each other’s faults; finding meaning daily, providing reasons for waking every dawn
By Our ReadersDecember 1984An unannounced visit, a four-year-old makeup artist, a dead parrot
By Our ReadersOctober 1984Wycke, I knew, had thought of his eyes as prisms, capable of seeing many points of view at once. They sat in deep dark sockets, alert, cautious, and ever vulnerable, like two small animals uneasy in their burrows.
By Reid ChampagneSeptember 1984In group homes, in the creek, with passive-aggressive breakage
By Our ReadersSeptember 1984Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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