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Kristin LaFollette-samson 

Alexithyrmia 

All I hear are the airplanes flying over 
and I watch through the window as 

they glide to the ground. The lights remind 
me of ice and gold and I think of my father-

I think of when I stood in the back of my 
brother's pickup and watched the planes 

take off and land, but this was at a smaller 
airport, a different one than 

this. 

I was wearing a Red Sox sweatshirt as a 
plane left the Earth and the air smelled like 

mud and wet grass. The old truck we were 
standing in broke down two months after that-

I remember that much. 

• 

Joe K 

The Reach 

The hot sand granules are oozin: 
Girls, in neon green bikinis that barely c 
bleached sidewalk. Ahead I can see largt 
up Jersey Jack's-toss around 300 pour 
my left is an almost imperceptible whit 
"The Original Location of MUSCLE BE 

My boss, Dennis, forced me to t' 
Executive at Kellogg, Santa Monica bra 
Mini-Wheat that can't wait to get eaten 
sound system from Best Buy just becaust 
job I literally felt like I couldn't live wit 
my last idea was to give small books aw 
up the order and accidentally shipped be 
believe how pissed people get about tha1 
Beach for both a break and to generate i 
cles, and tons of food; how can you not 

As I get closer to the muscle cag 
there is a pair of balance bars, whereas] 
the metal poles, like a 2x4 plank of woo 
Hogan looking guy is pulling an old Ste1 
To my amazement, when he reaches the 
worn plastic bucket, sits down, and star 
the keys. I haven't seen too many comr 
if I wouldn't buy one from this guy. I w 

Maybe we can get The Rock to sell Egg, 
ing! 

My stomach gurgles like an un 
walls contracting, calling out for a sac 
north towards the boardwalk. I leave my 
the food. In the late afternoon sun the 
distinguish from the cream colored san< 
ence is by following the twenty foot tall 
in the ocean air.