“My sisters and I stand on the deck, the shale tile cool against the soles of our feet - for a week it seems we never have to wear shoes - and take turns twirling, the matching turquoise silk skirts my mother bought us sliding coolly up our legs, our laughter flying out over the ocean. We are all light and happy and far, far away from home.”
“My sisters and I stand on the deck, the shale tile cool against the soles of our feet - for a week it seems we never have to wear shoes - and take turns twirling, the matching turquoise silk skirts my mother bought us sliding coolly up our legs, our laughter flying out over the ocean. We are all light and happy and far, far away from home.”
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
“I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back.”
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir“My sisters and I stand on the deck, the shale tile cool against the soles of our feet - for a week it seems we never have to wear shoes - and take turns twirling, the matching turquoise silk skirts my mother bought us sliding coolly up our legs, our laughter flying out over the ocean. We are all light and happy and far, far away from home.”
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir“Years later, I remember the waxy taste of the yellow paint, the papery taste of splintered wood, the sharp metallic of the graphite.”
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir“dragonflies circled me, the sun knifing off the brilliant blues and yellows of their bodies.”
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir“The sight of a palm tree silhouetted against the sky made even his life feel like a movie”
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