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Abstract

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In Rehearsal

Little Pleasures Lost & Found

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I swallow him: his eyes and song and voice, and hypnotize myself into a state of listening, absorbing every choice he’s made, the prayers he’s uttered, wipe the slate of self away, his bones become my own the scoliosis and the heart attack; no easy transformation, bend and groan, consider the minutiae, every slack of muscle, every word to him prescribed. Now weight it all and shape the living clay — but carefully! A writer once contrived the shape of him, so wander not away but step beneath the light and speak as him, leave not a single flourish to mere whim.

This story is a response to Prism & Pen’s writing prompt Little Pleasures Lost and Found.

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