Bloodlines

The Bitch

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My last period I threw our tv out the window. I hate Saturdays. The kids fight all morning over the Nintendo until I shove them out of the apartment. By the time I clean and grocery shop, I have five minutes to myself before my husband comes home from from work, grabs the remote and [...]

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Corporate Menstruation

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Perhaps my actions can be traced to the memo that said flex time was being eliminated and all employees were required to be sitting at their desks by eight a.m. sharp or we would be issued a warning. (Three warnings was grounds for automatic termination.) Or maybe it was the equally dehumanizing memo that said [...]

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Language of the Moon

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America is complicated place. I am learning to speak English and have hard time understanding about (how do you say) nouns and verbs. In Quechua, the language of my people, there are no nouns and verbs. It is a language more like a river always moving, changing. Let me explain. In English there is a [...]

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