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\nToday we made a bonfire. Your story in things, its cross-stitched lie, up in smoke. Face wily on every channel\u2014you when you sneaked up, surprised me; you when you squealed and ran, said \u201cBoo!\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nIt isn\u2019t until Fifth Street that I realize he, too, is tailing someone. When I turn around a man\u2019s eyes drop. Face a mask until he stops, squares his shoulders\u2014and darts a look behind him, too.<\/p>\n
3 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stephen Delaney<\/strong> writes short fiction, essays, and book reviews. His work has been published in, among other places, Crazyhorse, Euphony, Per Contra, matchbook, Gingerbread House, and The Believer<\/em> online. He tweets on writing craft as @marginalwords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1 Today we made a bonfire. Your story in things, its cross-stitched lie, up in smoke. Face wily on every channel\u2014you when you sneaked up, surprised me; you when you squealed and ran, said \u201cBoo!\u201d 2 It isn\u2019t until Fifth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[21972],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJust kids: a wave of giggles over a name in Young America<\/em>.
\nSo why this queasy calm? These shallow breaths?
\nWhy this jaw now set against legions\u2014the damned human race going back?<\/p>\n