Stories tagged “intermission”
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Intermission
I always get too much food. The performance would be resuming soon, so I was wolfing down the snack, wishing for water, and slipping through the crowd of almost-familiar people. It’s difficult to concentrate on staying calm when I feel so self co...
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Encore
I know why they call it a stab of jealousy. Imagine an instantaneous strike of emotion centered in your chest, the impact enough to make you gasp. Then it diffuses and bleeds outward into the rest of your body. Clenched fists, vision tinted, a dark red...