Moccasin Millennial
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Brianna G. Reed is the Diné author of several short fiction and nonfiction essays that have previously appeared in Leonardo Fine Arts Magazine and TCJ Student. Raised in a military family in Hope Mills, North Carolina, she now studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she spends her time running among the reeds of the bosque river, searching..
Moccasin Millennial
4M ago
“I carry the ghosts of five finals beneath my eyes, and I have no extra bandwidth left for graduation, family, or posing. Still, I am excited…”
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Moccasin Millennial
4M ago
“When I first opened the newspaper and unfolded your smile stretched serenely above your name, I remembered how you first came to me; seemingly a death doula, a mother, to guide me through loss. . .”
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Moccasin Millennial
4M ago
“Doctors never saw it on x-rays quite the same way the healers had. Instead, nurses pawed at my abdomen, mistook it as nothing more than blood-clots. I’m so sorry, they whispered…”
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Moccasin Millennial
4M ago
“A shadow in the door, his fingers curled around my cellphone. His eyes widened at seeing me in the ER . . . He took a step forward, hesitating before pulling away…”
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Moccasin Millennial
4M ago
“I’d arrived to campus that first time wind-tattered, make-up smeared by an hour’s worth of sweat. My wrist ached from nursing the clutch around curves, hazard-level winds pushing me to the edge…”
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Moccasin Millennial
4M ago
“He could see the highway in my eyes, the black-tar sinking like tidepools in the corners. I sagged into the couch and sighed into the steam…”
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Moccasin Millennial
4M ago
“I would walk, trash bags twisted onto my ankles to shield against snow melt, until I could rest against the bark, flick through songs, and watch as my breath drifted to the shivering leaves…”
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Moccasin Millennial
4M ago
“I heard it first before I saw it: a haphazard tapping, urgent as a whisper, against the window…”
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Moccasin Millennial
4M ago
“No one told me I was always meant to lose her. To this day, I wonder why they did it…”
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Moccasin Millennial
4M ago
“When those eyes flash from yards away, a sickly yellow, there is no time to breathe, to think…”
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