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Author Archives: Reem Abu-Baker

What Four Dollars Buys You ||| from 100 Word Story

September 22, 2014

Reem Abu-Baker

A Goodwill painting, a stony abstract, not bad. Black Sharpie slashes its canvas back—To Michelle, from Rodney. It juts from the cart’s jumbled flannels and porcelains. To Michelle, from Rodney. You invent them. Lovers, Michelle a cold bitch. Not lovers, … Continued

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