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Amanda Oliver

Amanda Oliver is the author of Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library and the nonfiction editor of Joyland Magazine. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Vox, Electric Literature, and more. She lives, writes, and teaches in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree.
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    Amanda Oliver

    Honey

    That cafe smelled like fresh-baked bread and cookies, and the baristas were all women with warm, soft hands who called everyone — the Senator, the mothers, the babies, the businessmen — Honey. So many baristas would have called you Honey, David. And swayed along…

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    Pine Street

    Did you see an animal? Did you see a bird? What did you see when you looked at me?