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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Page 47
... gonna die . I had to stop and gasp and walk . Then when I could breathe okay I'd run as fast as I could an- other ... gonna be in the Olympics or something ? You think you gonna run that marathon ? Finally , one Saturday , I went to see ...
... gonna die . I had to stop and gasp and walk . Then when I could breathe okay I'd run as fast as I could an- other ... gonna be in the Olympics or something ? You think you gonna run that marathon ? Finally , one Saturday , I went to see ...
Page 52
... gonna run the race to- morrow with about nine thousand other women , and how they , the family , they have got to cheer us and watch , and I look at Needa and the kid and see how slender they are now , and healthy , how beautiful and ...
... gonna run the race to- morrow with about nine thousand other women , and how they , the family , they have got to cheer us and watch , and I look at Needa and the kid and see how slender they are now , and healthy , how beautiful and ...
Page 53
... gonna run the race . Me and my other mom's gonna watch . said . Some things are forever inside us . Some things cannot get That's why , when the gun went off , it was like this piece of me fell deep , deep down inside , into the dark ...
... gonna run the race . Me and my other mom's gonna watch . said . Some things are forever inside us . Some things cannot get That's why , when the gun went off , it was like this piece of me fell deep , deep down inside , into the dark ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Mothers of Heroes | 17 |
A Room in a Stone House in Spain | 29 |
Copyright | |
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