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Drive Time
Jillian Weise gets some of her best ideas when she’s driving her car. No wonder her poetry and fiction cover so much ground.
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sacred places, shattered spaces
Fist-sized chunks of limestone and cracked brick. Crumbled masonry and leveled columns. Shattered buttresses and pots, toys, and tools.
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Somebody had to go.
Sorry about that. Somebody had to go. Couldn’t let everybody off the hook.
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a slave’s life
You got whipped for not working fast enough. You got whipped for not admitting to a minor theft you didn’t commit. You got whipped for praying, for not obeying quickly enough, for taking a muskmelon to keep from starving. And sometimes you got whipped just for the pure sadistic hell of it.
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