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The Find<\/strong><\/p>\n At the garage sale I smiled when I saw Emily Dickinson\u2019s selected poems. Didn\u2019t I have this edition at home? Inside it read: To Marie. Friends forever. Love, Alice.<\/em><\/p>\n I was<\/em> Alice\u2014that was my handwriting. Was the woman in the lawn chair, watching over the sale, Marie? I tried imagining the middle-aged woman without the crow\u2019s feet, without the gray hairs, and thought I could discern my high school friend. Why had we stopped talking? What would I say?<\/p>\n I took the book to the woman and handed over a dollar. \u201cPoetry, eh?\u201d the woman remarked. \u201cNever was my thing.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n This short is taken from Carrie Etter’<\/strong>s first pamphlet of short fiction, Hometown,\u00a0 which is out now from V. Press\u00a0 :http:\/\/vpresspoetry.blogspot.co.uk\/p\/bookshop.htm<\/a>l. She has published other stories in Flash, New Welsh Review, The Nottingham Review, and other journals, and she keeps a blog devoted to flash fiction and prose poetry at http:\/\/suddenprose.blogspot.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Find At the garage sale I smiled when I saw Emily Dickinson\u2019s selected poems. Didn\u2019t I have this edition at home? Inside it read: To Marie. Friends forever. Love, Alice. I was Alice\u2014that was my handwriting. Was the woman in the lawn chair, watching over the sale, Marie? I tried imagining the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[135,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10845"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23834,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845\/revisions\/23834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}