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One time I had a job at a library. That’s not actually correct, as the word “job” implies payment, and I was never paid, so . . . one time I volunteered at a library. The library had a program through which people who were unable to visit the library could sign up to …Library Peeon
Maj holds the smaller badly behaved dog, bouncing him gently in the air to simulate walking as she narrates, “Here’s the casually walking dog going about his business when suddenly there is a break in the time-space continuum,” (and here she lowers the unsuspecting dog onto the speedily moving treadmill) “and he is shot …Braced against magic
I always thought that if this happened to me, I would just shut down the blog and walk away. With all due respect to the people out there who write and share as they are going through personal crises, I am not about that. Truth be told, it makes my stomach turn to read …When I leave . . .
Heading out to the mall to shop for Maj’s 13th birthday.
I have my period, which means that I weigh about the same number of pounds I always weigh, but each pound is now viewed through the doubling lens of my hormone-induced self-loathing.
Plus there is bloat.
I stare at myself in the mirror; …Flattery money
She reads a line in a book . . . “Someone was always dying somewhere, and in the summer of 1958, the year [he] counted himself ten years old, it was his mother’s turn.” She reads that line in a book, and then she finds that she cannot breathe. Tears spill from her eyes …Sad watery magic
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Braced against magic
Maj holds the smaller badly behaved dog, bouncing him gently in the air to simulate walking as she narrates, “Here’s the casually walking dog going about his business when suddenly there is a break in the time-space continuum,” (and here she lowers the unsuspecting dog onto the speedily moving treadmill) “and he is shot …Braced against magic