July 2010
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The Minute Waltz
by Alexandra Erin
It had been a beautiful waltz, but the music was already fading. Not ending, just… drifting further and further away. The lovers lingered in each other’s arms, exchanging desperate, pleading looks with each other. It was no use. They were being pulled away, pulled from their idyll, pulled back to their separate existences, so close together and yet worlds apart… pulled down...
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Boxed In
by Alexandra Erin
There is a box in the woods, lying between the roots of a tree. Its square sides contain a detailed mosaic depicting a troupe of dancers with the spires of some Russian city behind them. The little girl who has just come across the box does not recognize the spires, but she knows a ballet when she sees one.
She goes to the box and picks it up. She starts to open it when she...
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Seal of Approval
by Alexandra Erin
“Well, that’s it,” the selkie said. “You have my skin, you hold my life in your hands. I am yours… hunted, caught, and won. But though you will feel my heat beneath you and around you, though I will be warm beside you in the bed, though my heart may one day burn with love for you, you will find no satisfaction in my kisses, which shall always and forever feel like cold fish...
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Consider Her Ways And Means
by Alexandra Erin
“I’m going to the store in a bit,” she said. “Could you give me some money?”
“Sure,if you’re going grocery shopping anyway we’re almost out of…
“Not that kind of store,” she said.
“What kind, then?”
“I haven’t decided yet,” she said. “I just have the urge to go out there and, you know…get something. Don’t you ever get that urge?”
“Yes,” I said. “But I try to find some way...
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Four Impossible Things Is The New Six
by Alexandra Erin
“Now then,” said the Tailor to Alice, “I must measure this frock, and then we’ll know what size we must make you to fit it.”
“What?” said Alice, certain that she must have heard him incorrectly. “But doesn’t it make much more sense to measure the person and then make the clothing fit them?”
“Measure the person? Make the clothing fit? Well I’ve never heard of such a thing....
