A K, Author at Agnes and True

Re-Opening Night

It has nothing to do with the fact that I dried. Or maybe it has everything to do with it

A number of people came up afterwards, trying to reassure me with some variation of “a bad rehearsal means a good show.” Clara, our stage manager, said it twice. It wasn’t even a full dress, more like a line run after our unexpected break, with a few tech cues. But if Lear can’t remember his lines, is there even a play?

That was yesterday.

Now I’m caked in make-up, making my already wrinkled and sagging face ludicrously aged. […]

Exposure

by Lindsay McDonald

You let your ex spend the night, and you aren’t really sleeping. Instead you are pretending to sleep—the blanket way up over your head when he pushes his palm into the meaty part of your thigh, kneading your skin over and over with increasing pressure—until you can’t ignore him. You want to leave the blanket up over your head, in hopes that he’ll retreat as he has done so many times before, in hopes that he’ll go out the door into the snow that has crusted over into ice, into the frozen expanse beyond your […]

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Exposure