Issue 140

Summer & Fall 2011

Fiction Christine Sneed Fiction Christine Sneed

The River

People still swim in the river, but it’s so polluted that when they get out and sit on a towel, their butts leave a grease print. Kids used to skinny-dip in it and have picnics on the banks when my mom was a girl, but now it smells like sewer water and basically, that’s what the river is.

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