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Mouth

ShortStory 1,399 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources

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"The day they took my mouth hadn’t been spent eating De la Rosas, or smoking, or spitting. In fact, I hadn’t used my mouth in any way that you might expect someone who was about to lose their sense of taste, their tongue, their voice, might have."

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Magical RealismColonialismBodily AutonomySpeculative FictionLyricalLyrical ProseIntimateUrbanMelancholicMemoryContemporaryFirst PersonLiteraryIdentityVoice Driven

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