Friday, October 30, 2009

The beginnings of a story with no ending


Alice was small with large breasts. Boys liked this about her. Boys also liked her hair, how the burnt orange tendrils fell in assorted formations over her brow, softly framing the edges of her cheeks. That’s the kind of thing boys would say they liked about Alice, to Alice’s face — as they stared deeply into the emerging terrains of her brown sweaters.

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