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NO MAN'S LAND SALLY MIZRACHI PROSE
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n a small town where the The son was not at all one grew much too for cracked roads and weeds much out of the jagged cracks and told his parents very angrily along the road and onto the so. He left one day for a city so actual road, Casey met Marla and large, his sister hardly knew where they knew they would get married. to look for him. She didn’t care The dust blew in sideways on the for the weeds either, but would day they told Marla’s father, and never tell her parents, and so she like the sun that never seemed only told Buck and stroked his to leave even a glimmer of gold ears and watched him wiggle his behind, he said that he was glad brown spotted tail. of them, and gave his blessing. The son never married but Casey and Marla where sent a letter by postage stamp young and not at all old, but down to a sweetheart in Louisiana, sooner or later dust gets the better who also knew from weeds and of everyone and everything, or at other nasty things. He did not least that’s what the textbooks know that she had children of her say. For this reason own and a husband on their wedding SHE SHOOK SLIGHTLY too. He didn’t night Casey got BUT PARTED HER LIPS know because she very serious and AND WHISPERED YES never told him so. told Marla in words One day her INTO HIS EAR. none too soft that husband came they would have a home and found family now, and this he believed a letter, one of the more creased and wanted with all his heart. She ones. He screamed a scream shook slightly but parted her lips that rent the clouds above and and whispered yes into his ear said scowling to the sunshine and in a few years they had a son that he would never let his wife and a daughter and a handsome travel to one of those big cities young dog they called Buck. forevermore. He meant to tell her
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