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by
Kate Stewart
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December 7 - December 17, 2022
A wood-burning and massive stone fireplace
wood-burning stove/fire and massive stone fireplace
covered from bow to trunk in twinkling lights,
from bough to trunk
over a carefully decorated and large dining room table.
over a large, carefully decorated
“Mommy just called me a hoe.”
ho.
I’ve engrained in myself to ignore they exist,
?
by yellow and black knee-high’s
knee-highs
just as the girl wretches again—
retches
Most people have the decency not to enter a closed bedroom door.”
not to open a closed bedroom door.
he brings it to my parent’s house
parents'
Please know I am—the entire family—is very embarrassed by this.
I am - the entire family is - very embarrassed
men that break their daughter’s hearts into memory.
daughters' hearts
may have taken a left back onto simple Sally Avenue.
onto Simple Sally Avenue.
It’s clear there’s a delicate Collin’s family ecosystem
Collins family
“You made good use staring at said ‘junk.’
?
“So, you’re going to give chase?”
make me chase you?"
But the jokes on them
joke's
the scar from my parent’s loss
from my parents' loss/the loss of my parents/of losing my parents
as I take her demeanor in.
take in her demeanour.
Erin and Brenden’s personalities are a complete contrast to the other,
to each other
“A tape measurer,”
tape measure
if you hadn’t of stood me up.”
hadn't stood me up
“GO TIME!” Allen booms from the front door as Ruby exits the house and locks it behind them, eyeing the two of us.
Dad… …Mom…
*Whitney's POV
“Call me, Allen.”
"Call me Allen."
Dad says, slowing to a stoplight.
slowing at a stoplight.
“Still, it was a hoe thing to do, Sweet Pea,”
ho
Mind if we turn it down, or off, altogether?”
down, or off altogether?"
I can’t help but to cover the hand he’s running along his thigh.
can't help but cover
surprisingly opening it up with ease.
opening it up with surprising ease.
“Look,” she tugs at the brim of her beanie,
edge of her beanie.
Beanies do not have brims.
demanding to watch the Lion King on Thatch’s iPad, to which Thatch easily gave into despite Serena’s protest,
…to which… …gave in
talk for a majority of the time
the majority
Peyton lays milk drunk on his chest.
Peyton lies
Laying witness to it firsthand
Witnessing it first-hand
Brenden takes Erin’s hand, pulling her into his lap as she lovingly grips it between her own hands.
pulling it into his lap
I glance down at my new jogging suit. “I picked it up while we were shopping yesterday.” “Pink has always been your color,” my mother admonishes as a blush threatens.
why would a compliment be delivered with admonishment?
while she lays perfectly still,
lies
laying on the tiny mattress as he adjusts a pillow under my head.
lying
before letting myself sweep over him.
letting my gaze sweep
so they can hone in on their craft.”
hone their craft."
The one woman whom I’ve always let push me beyond my tolerable limits.
my tolerance limits.
as he lays completely still
lies
The crazy part is, she was purposefully kept unaware of how vulnerable I was.
purposely
that haunted me nearly every waking hour.
haunted almost my every waking hour
An unescapable truth
inescapable
I’m closing the sale of my parent’s house.
parents' house
the meet the parents’ thing,
meet-the-parents thing.
“Yeah, how dare I read into the come fuck me eyes,
come-fuck-me
Girl’s night starts the minute the dinner dishes are dry.
Girls' night
“Here, here,” Whitney chides, sipping her own second bottle.
Hear, hear.
My feet move on their own accord
of their own accord
