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Tom Jenks

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Private Planet | Narrative Magazine

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A Story Share Facebook Threads Reddit Forward Print Copy link Sometime during the decade in which Catherine stopped having sex, she got into the habit of imagining herself as an old woman. She had been practicing some variation of this since she was a child—lying in bed each night with her hands at her sides, envisioning herself in the same supine position, the same skeleton underneath sagging skin, with the same internal organs, only decades later.
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The Day of the Dog

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A Story Share Facebook Threads Reddit Forward Print Copy link Everything on the garlic field is coated in a fine, choking dust. Rows of brittle brown stalks sit trapped in the August dirt, waiting. The Mennonite women wear wide-brimmed hats that hide their faces, while their husbands, clad in heavy overalls, bend over the rows like fishhooks weighted by a catch they can’t quite haul in. The field is an ocean; the families are so far apart they look like mere ink dots on a map.
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Regional Hospitals | Narrative Magazine

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A Story Share Facebook Threads Reddit Forward Print Copy link Her father rings her from a restaurant in Malaga. You know the place, he says, and begins listing the names of bars and restaurants next to the one he is in. She can’t quite hear him over the din of what she imagines to be giant dishes of paella being served to sunburnt retirees the same colour as their oversize Aperol Spritz. You remember it, he insists—our local.
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