TLB6: Michelle Blade, Little Wings, + Krissy Kneen

The Hand of the Desert (Chile) by Michelle Blade

Little Wings – “Sandy Babe Demonstration (Ocean Beach, CA)”

Excerpt from Slovenia
by Krissy Kneen

She had a thing in her satchel for him. A welcome home gift. Just a CD she had made of the music she had been listening to since he left. Bec kicked the satchel further under her chair and slouched. This seemed to be the kind of café where you were supposed to slouch.

“We would finish up at night and go out dancing somewhere.”

“With the lesbians?”

He shrugged. “Sure.”

He stretched, and she noticed his hand shaking. She remembered how much it bothered her. She used to worry that this was the beginning of something, a disease.

When the coffee was delivered she didn’t want black coffee anymore. She wanted a flat white. She swallowed the short black and the hot acid of it burned all the way to her stomach. She wanted a glass of water. She looked around for a jug.

“I’m tired,” Bec said.

“Yeah. I’m a bit jetlagged myself. Up all night watching bad infomercials. They don’t have those in Slovenia, you know?”

Bec didn’t know but it made sense when he said it.

“I don’t have jetlag,” Bec said, “I’m just a bit tired.”

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