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Couchsurfing Collage by the author To protect the privacy of the individuals depicted, some names and identifying details have been changed. --------------------------- Spring 2025 Your whole life story is in that backpack and you hand it to me one page at a time. Your toxicology report, your birth certificate, psych evaluation, social security card. The gray elastic band of your [...]
In a school full of hard cases, Theresa Fulife was the hardest. She looked like the oldest kid in the eighth grade because at 16 she was. Her scarred, nearly six-foot muscular frame looked like it had been tattooed by a drunken sailor. Her face resembled the pitted surface of some foreign planet. Her hair rose knotted and wild above [...]
To the young beautiful woman with tears in her eyes who lives above me: now I know why you run in the apartment for hours backandforth backandforth. I know why you don't talk in the hallway. I know because the building is old and my ceiling is thin. I heard the furniture thunder last night and I heard him - [...]
