What does it mean when most of your countrymen live in Moscow or Los Angeles?
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Tag: Fiction
“The White Envelope (1975)” by Catherine Cusset, translated from the French by Armine Kotin Mortimer
All night long, Elena tossed and turned on her thin mattress and listened to . . . the coughs, the laughs, the sobs, and the whispers of all these poor people who had the same hopes as they did.
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So they invoked God to bless their spreadsheet. Some said God said those words were His . . . And others said God never really said that.
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You notice she doesn’t have her usual mom smell; she smells like orange trees and flower fields.
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He went into the kitchen to look for the car keys, found them on the hook where she usually hung them, and put them in his pocket.
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The men frequently give aliases; as simple as John Smith or as attention-seeking as Carlos Danger. She guesses that they believe her name to be an alias too.
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He wore a pair of faded bib overalls over a black NASCAR tee shirt, a red “Make America Great Again” hat, and held in one hand the electrician-taped handle of a bulging duffel bag and in the other, a leash attached to the pale pink, rhinestone studded collar of a doleful looking Harlequin Great Dane.
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I turn around and gain elevation so I won’t be tempted. It’s her turn to hunt.
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Mary Ann seemed more at ease, and eventually turned to Greta to ask, “Does your son obey you?”
Greta smiled, “No. Does anyone’s?”
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Professional Skills: Steel-driving, of course
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