Jody Rae

Jody Rae’s work appears in Phoebe Journal, The Avalon Literary Review, The Good Life Review, and From Whispers to Roars. She has pieces forthcoming in Sledgehammer Lit and RESURRECTION Magazine. Her work can be found at www.criminysakesalive.com.

HOT SAUCE GLOW by Jody Rae

Is it true we’ll spend the next nine months across worn-down Neapolitan-chocolate-brown carpet that we tell ourselves we’ll cover with a rug, but never do? The cinder block walls are painted dried vanilla ice cream on warm pavement. Like a wound that won’t heal, the thick drapes won’t close all the way and they bleed a strawberry sunset over Wide Open Spaces, an autumn-tinged campus and the regal-yet-defunct Boise train depot.  For a split second, I think you are giving me the cold shoulder when I come home from class and you are asleep with your eyes open and, yes,…

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