Read Be Seein’ Ya. Thanks for three great years!

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Caucasian woman with blonde hair, wearing white and black sleeveless top, and black pants. First reader of the last set, she crosses the stage to a mic under a still dark night and addresses the Scream survivors still planted on the grass, ready to listen.

The Night is a Mouth, Lisa Foad (Exile Editions)

Page 82:

“Right, right. But listen, Gold. If you ever find yourself sitting in a city made of hunger, cut its heart out or it’ll eat yours. No joke. And Gold, if you talk to your mother, tell her I love her. Tell her that I didn’t do anything wrong. And tell her that if I did, it’s partly her fault. Because we’re a team.”

“Dad—”

“Okay, okay. Bye, darling.”

Seconds later, the phone rings. Sure enough, it’s Gold’s mom.

“Gold, it’s your mother.”

“My mother’s dead.”

The woman sitting two rows down leans forward, her chin in her hands, her chin on her knees. She strokes her shoe laces, tracing them past each eyelet to the end of their road, her fingers perilously edging over the tip of her sneakers. The man beside her reaches over, places his forearm lazily across her shoulder, his finger just able to twirl the longest strand of her curly hair around his index finger. He tugs gently; she likes the tingle. He kisses her clothed shoulder, and she sits back into his shoulder. Breezy readings come but once a year.

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