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YOU EMAIL AN INVITE TO MEET FOR COFFEE AND I TAKE FOUR DAYS TO RESPOND

Shoshauna ShySummer 2023, Summer 2023 Poetry

by Shoshauna Shy because do I nurture your trust or undermine it, jump on the friendship carousel or blow it to smithereens? Who has not learned that we value most what we have to earn – so before I reply, I want my continued absence to turn the sugar of anticipation to acid as the

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What Happened to My Parents After They Gave Me Up

Shoshauna ShySummer 2021, Summer 2021 Fiction

by Shoshauna Shy She met her true soulmate under a beach umbrella on Nantucket Island, felt like she dodged a bullet, but eventually Soulmate returned to his wife. He took up with a Finnish bricklayer who already had custody of a couple of kids, and neither of them ever came around to liking him. She

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