How to Get Into the Twin Palms by Karolina Waclawiak

Author:Karolina Waclawiak [Waclawiak, Karolina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780983247180
Amazon: 0983247188
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Published: 2012-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

I RAN AROUND THE TRACK UNTIL I THREW UP. I think I was there for an hour. Running in circles, making myself dizzy. I stood on the edge of the gravel and stripes and threw everything up. Borscht, hot dogs, carrot cake, bile. I did it until I was heaving and breathing out acrid breaths and there was nothing left inside of me. Teenage girls pointed at me.

They said, “Look at her. She’s throwing up.”

I told them to shut up and wiped my mouth on my sleeve and kicked gravel over the puke. It didn’t cover it at all and I didn’t care.

Small hunched women were wrestling with wire carts and going to the little stores that still sold fruit and vegetables in crates on tables, and not in big behemoth refrigerated wall units. Flies filled the air in these shops but their fruit was sweetest. I shopped there all the time. More people seemed to walk on Fairfax than anywhere else, visiting the apteka, purchasing orthopedic shoes in discreet black bags, stopping in the grocery and buying cans of food labeled in different languages. Sometimes they walked in packs, sometimes alone, always in layers of clothing – always neat and scrubbed clean. Their appearance was carefully fretted over, even if they walked, nearly bent over in an L.

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