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THE OKLAHOMA
REVIEW
Volume 8 | Issue 1 | Spring 2007 |
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Print version Janet Butler Death in the Mountains LeAnna Covalt A Few Days after Your Fiftieth Birthday Pagosa Springs Roger
Jones
Long Ago Dream of a Bad Love Affair Coming Attractions, 1960 Jason W. Selby Love in the Time of Colonialism Noel
Sloboda
Surfaces Cuts Uncruel Salesman of the Quarter tolbert laughter Anne Whitehouse Blessings IX Curses II |
tolbert
ghosts
she took the ghosts with her when she died. the fear that made her cry out in the night after the sting of wondering whether anyone loved her was gone like a diminished childhood that never happened. she tried to talk to those who knew her well; the conversation turned hard like a brass key in a rusted deadbolt opening up yet another secret room where the ghosts lived. as a child the ghosts fooled her into believing they were playmates and the basement closet was a playground filled with imaginary carousels and colorful marionettes. even then, she never laughed… but only watched in disbelief as they paraded by, marching around another corner where the music stopped leaving cruel whisperings about how wonderful it is to play with silence and count words that can never escape. |
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