Tara M Stringfellow

Memphis

Lindsay

Alex Goodwin

Miriam lifted her dark brown eyes from her novel and fixed them on the stranger in front of her. Miriam—who had only ever regarded men as inevitable oddities and annoyances, nothing more than mosquito bites in the summer, moths that made their way into chests in the winter months, the dust that settled atop books—Miriam, ever indifferent to the wiles of men, fell in utter, marrow- boiling love the moment her doe eyes locked with those of the young man in front of her.

August exhaled a thin stream of smoke. She shook her head back and forth and said, “Men and death. Men and death. How on earth y'all run the world when all y'all have ever done is kill each other?”

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