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  • From the Archives: Fiction by Deb Margolin


    This story takes place in the end of the summer, “when even the heat feels cool because it’s tired of itself.” It’s set in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a town that “had the stillness of a rattlesnake before the strike.”

    The descriptions in this story are spot-on. The narrator hears a fight start “slowly, like a lawn-mower far away.” Sadness is “the tainted maudlin kind you feel in a playground empty of children.” Desire is “a terrifying, beautiful muscle that moved like a fish.”

    Read "Alfie and Joe" here.

     


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  • New on Nerve, 9.12.07: Lecherous writers and boyfriends who hide their porn

     Fiction by Emily Raboteau

     

    "The writer licked her earlobe. He urgently nibbled the back of her neck. She was getting wet, becoming the thing in his arms being kissed. At the same time, she felt entirely detached from the scene. She noticed a box turtle swimming under the surface of the water and had an impulse to smash it with a rock." 

     

    Miss Information by Erin Bradley

     


    "I would love to watch [my boyfriend's porn] with him; I see it as chance to get a window into what other things he would like from me sexually — what he'd like me to look like, dress like, act out. But when I mention this (or, more frequently, cry about how it is taking a chunk of my self-esteem and flushing it down the toilet), I get a wall of silence in response."

     



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