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Divorce
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Fidelity
She stood up. “Excuse me for interrupting,” she said to the minister, “but he can’t do that. He’s married to me already. We never really got divorced. I never gave him a divorce. Those are our children sitting there in front of you.” She addressed the bride. “It’s better for you to know now than to find out later.”
June 1993Readers Write
Staying Together
Being tied up till eternity through the children, writing to each other in a centrally located spiral notebook, consulting the I Ching
June 1993Fiction
Promises
Driving home from work, Bones rehearsed what he’d say when he broke up with Linda. “I got to get out,” he might say. Or, “I’m no good for you.”
October 1992Fiction
Straight From The Mouth
I didn’t think I’d hear again from my grandmother’s second husband, Uncle Benny, and then he called one Wednesday afternoon, three years after my grandmother had left him. I was stacking money on my bed at the time — ones on the pillow, fives at the foot, and tens in the middle where I could see them easiest.
August 1992Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Small Victory
I crashed my bike once. I bought an R75/5 — my first BMW. I was told I had to earn it. I didn’t quite understand at the time.
February 1992Readers Write
Enemies
Shifting into gear and ramming a garbage can into the wall, buying a house together, playing apple-war games
October 1991Readers Write
Going Out
A three-thousand-pound slab, a pair of sunglasses and a book, a sprouting of wings
March 1991Fiction
Living In Lotus
Ever since the therapist said, “Rebecca, if only you’d let go once in a while, relax, flow, you’d be a lot happier,” I’d been trying to write in the lotus position.
August 1989
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