In My Clothes
My cousin and I are in matching dresses with purple buttons, lavender yarn in our braids. Our mothers take us to Sears Portrait Studio, where we sit together in front of a marbled blue sky. I’m into it, all of it.
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Claudia Smith
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Claudia Smith is the author of the flash fiction collections The Sky Is A Well And Other Shorts (Rose Metal Press) and Put Your Head In My Lap (Future Tense Books). Sky was reprinted in the collection A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women. Her most recent collection of stories, Quarry Light, is now available from Magic Helicopter Press. Her site is
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