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THE RUMPUS: "The Throwaways." An essay by Melissa Chadburn about growing up poor & politics & taxes. (It's beautiful.)

“I was born nice as hell. I was born so damn sweet. I could never get mad. I could never get in trouble. Good good good. I curtsied. I studied hard. I said my prayers. I finished my food. If I went to your mom’s house I’d make her love me. I was born with an invisible locket around my neck. Only half of a heart. The right half. The half that said, “BE.” Everyone else had the “MINE.””

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My story will be up @ Little Fiction next week. !! SO EXCITED. And I lovelovelove the cover.  ♥

My story will be up @ Little Fiction next week. !! SO EXCITED. And I lovelovelove the cover.  ♥

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare’s plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.

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Sexual Healing - Ben Harper & Innocent Criminals, iTunes Originals - Ben Harper

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I am Leesa. A brown-eyed Kentucky girl & a writer of fictions. Sometimes I write at LeesaCrossSmith.com & there's also a list of my published & forthcoming short fiction over here.

WRITING: 2011 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest Editor's Choice: Whiskey & Ribbons. || The Rumpus. || Storychord.
Bluestem Magazine. || The Blind Hem. || Word Riot.

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