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Winter Education

Kyle Hemmings

    Sitting too long in public waiting rooms, or in his own rooms, thinking of her hands as white flowers, erotic sonatas of bone, he grew saddle-sore on the cushions custom-made from dead birds. She wore mittens in bed. Everything else was a scam. She taught him pain by neglecting him in increasingly longer increments. He recalled her crazy signatures on his pillow, the too deep curlicues and serifs.
    On some days, snow belonged to the Prussians or the men with big wheels. Coming down with a nasty cold, he thought of winter as an unyielding bitch, a revengeful bastard child of North and South Pole. Why, across the world, Moscow could be burning and no one would send good will packages. He now stood below her fifth story window in the 6th Ward—his muffled shouts, inaudible to all but winter ghosts, suspended in frozen air. He realized that he had never owned anything— only borrowed what could never be his. He froze to death but some part of him continued to walk for many years.

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