The Most of It by Mary Ruefle

Author:Mary Ruefle [Ruefle, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Short Stories, Fiction
ISBN: 9781933517292
Publisher: Wave Books
Published: 2008-05-31T23:00:00+00:00

WHAT WOMAN

If someone asked me to remember my first menses — for what woman can forget it? — I would remember the afternoon in the dressing room off of the ballet studio, where I was one of twelve disciples in pink and black who had just been whipped to a frenzy in front of a mirror by a Russian voice, and the low bench where I sat undoing my toe shoes, unwinding their long ribbons from around my ankles, mysteriously feeling that my unseen toes had been crushed in a new way, a way that ushered in the idea that love could be greater than pain, devotion could withstand the greatest barbarity, and I was one who could bear it. That wad of lamb’s wool stuffed in the blunt end of each shoe was indeed blood-soaked, it was wet, it was red, and yet already turning a dark and troubling purple.

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