We meet at a place called the Fox and Anchor in Barbican. It’s not far from Jenna’s (and formerly my) gym, and she comes with her bag and trainers. She is sitting in front of a morose glass of red wine, and that’s kind of sweet from her.
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“You want to come?” It’s the sudden question Lennard posits me while chopping some leek.
“I… where?” I take time, even if I’ve understood what he means.
“To the new year’s party. Unless you have other plans” Zeke intromits. Bastard.
“I think…”
Lennard is looking at me. He knows I don’t have other plans.
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She scoured her whole denim dress, to understand where the unbearable itching was coming from.
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Theresa thought she had no time for that, so she just smiled.
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I was alone; yet safe.
That’s what I thought until the noise of something moving in the bushes reached my ears.
Someone, as I detected cadenced footsteps.(Excerpt from a soon to be published short story)
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He shared a morsel of his pastrami sandwich with the stray cat via his chalk-powdered hands.
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She loved she knew what anthropomorphic means.
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She opened her mouth but then decided to say, “It’s okay for me”.
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He pushed the plate in front of her. It was beautiful, she thought: the brims graced with blue paint, swirls merging and forming into branches and leaves and flowers.
And its inside was equally pretty: the perfectly squared corners, the toasted egg yolk condensed between the spinach and goat cheese veinings, of the slice of quiche resting peacefully on the white ceramic.
“Try some.”
She looked up at his eyes, which were commanding what he said politely.
The empty room around them, her figure bending over the table, diving into her own personal cruciation. She fluctuated the full fork in the air before trapping between her hesitant lips.
The unrequested carbs and unsaturated and saturated fats and iron and potassium and Vitamin B’s and calcium descended in her stomach, and she sensed–
every
inch
of
them.
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The welkin rang…
and rang, and rang,
But she did not pick up the phone
that time either.
Claudia Delicato 