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uncut pages
This should be unopened, I think. You can’t trim with a paper knife.
After she finished drying off she looked in the mirror and appraised her breasts, still round and high in spite of two pregnancies.
Male writers, sigh.
Ana Magdalena Bach had seen more towering cliffs of glass go up every year while the village grew more and more impoverished.
Only when she picked up her book from the bedside table to put it in her bag did she notice that he had left between its pages of horror a twenty-dollar bill.
Yikes.
She detested fashionable books and knew that time would never allow her to keep up to date.
and only that year upon her return from the island did she begin to see it with chastened eyes.
apache tango.
Wow, the origin of this phrase is something else. JFC.
vitrified
She was so convinced that her mother would send her a sign of approval that she expected it instantly.
But it wasn’t the law knocking at the door, it was him.
Creeeeepy
The supernatural invocation dispensed with her scruples.
When he finished telling her, Ana Magdalena felt raw with pain. She wanted to kill them both, not with a merciful gunshot, but by carving them up bit by bit into transparent slices with a meat guillotine.
She had taken more time than was necessary to fix herself up,
Only then did the daughter glimpse the reason her mother had taken those trips the six years before she died.
Maybe. Would Ana have jumped to this conclusion before her own affairs?
The magician answered with an accurate imprecision:
and cried herself to sleep furious with herself for the disgrace of being a woman in a man’s world.
Finally, my most profound gratitude to Gabo, for his humanity, simplicity, and the affection he always served up to anyone who approached thinking he was a god, to demonstrate with his smile that he was a man.
Editor’s note.
