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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 ghosts laughter Anne Whitehouse Blessings IX |
Anne
Whitehouse
from Curses
II
My cousin’s cousin who pinned me in the kitchen and groped my breasts at Thanksgiving is an ob-gyn in Texas who refuses to counsel women with unwanted pregnancies on abortion. His wife killed a coral snake with a shotgun at their ranch. It was curled up on the front porch. "I respect snakes, but these kill the dogs." She’d called her husband at work and he’d declined to come home. "Handle it yourself," he said, and she did. She got it with one shot; the recoil nearly knocked her down. Not wanting to scare her daughter, she hid the evidence from her. |
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