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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... door gazing at the surveil- lance hole , feeling distinctly small and harmless , until they buzzed me in . I gave a phony name , told them I was Tali's cousin , and the nurse , who had that dull , passive pouting look of an unpre ...
... door gazing at the surveil- lance hole , feeling distinctly small and harmless , until they buzzed me in . I gave a phony name , told them I was Tali's cousin , and the nurse , who had that dull , passive pouting look of an unpre ...
Page 99
... doors . It had ceased to be that suddenly — as if a light had , just like that , been snapped off for- ever . Now the ... door behind . Inside the Mountain burned a light , from some deep part of the cellar . It dimly illuminated the ...
... doors . It had ceased to be that suddenly — as if a light had , just like that , been snapped off for- ever . Now the ... door behind . Inside the Mountain burned a light , from some deep part of the cellar . It dimly illuminated the ...
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... door , past the mostly closed door meant to hide us well , he stops for a second to watch . It's not something he was meant to see , for sure . But there he is anyway , curious ; and here we are— never mind that the bed's made and our ...
... door , past the mostly closed door meant to hide us well , he stops for a second to watch . It's not something he was meant to see , for sure . But there he is anyway , curious ; and here we are— never mind that the bed's made and our ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Mothers of Heroes | 17 |
A Room in a Stone House in Spain | 29 |
Copyright | |
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