Love and Death & Other Disasters: Stories 1977-1995Jenifer Levin's first collection of short stories, this volume represents work written over the past 20 years--some of it never before published. Intimate, raw, erotically charged, sometimes comic and deeply disturbing, always passionate, these stories center on lesbian relationships with lovers, children, family. |
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... clothes , through hers , and reach deep to touch some hungry , wanting thing inside her . Down a hall with old tiled floor , in a closet - sized bedroom , in the mess of sheets and a warm tired colorless quilt that smelled like her ...
... clothes , through hers , and reach deep to touch some hungry , wanting thing inside her . Down a hall with old tiled floor , in a closet - sized bedroom , in the mess of sheets and a warm tired colorless quilt that smelled like her ...
Page 50
... clothes . Lost , she sobbed . No , honey , I told her , holding her , rocking the both of us back and forth . No , honey , no , sweet woman , my Needa , don't You didn't get lost , you been found . you cry . Help me , Celía , she said ...
... clothes . Lost , she sobbed . No , honey , I told her , holding her , rocking the both of us back and forth . No , honey , no , sweet woman , my Needa , don't You didn't get lost , you been found . you cry . Help me , Celía , she said ...
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... clothes , the obliterating scent of chlorine - hang unstirring in the air . When you're alone in such a place , you feel two big conflicting things : enclosed , yet revealed . I hurried through the ritual of hanging clothes , suiting up ...
... clothes , the obliterating scent of chlorine - hang unstirring in the air . When you're alone in such a place , you feel two big conflicting things : enclosed , yet revealed . I hurried through the ritual of hanging clothes , suiting up ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Mothers of Heroes | 17 |
A Room in a Stone House in Spain | 29 |
Copyright | |
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