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mean I have to buy tickets? I have dollars, see, do-llars. Habla Ingles? Dollars aren’t good enough for a carou- sel ride these days? Where’s your manager?
The ticket taker waved us through and Donald Trump tucked his arm through mine and I smelled the after- shave that I wouldn’t be able to stop smelling for the rest of the day. Hey, I got you a present. You like pres- ents, right? he said, handing me a giant purple stuffed giraffe. I don’t ride those things myself, I get indiges- tion he said as I climb onto a waiting horse, waving as I disappear.
“Iwas not prepared for Donald Trump’s warm, slightly reddened
body laying next to me when I woke up this morning.”
Her books include The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories (2014), The Monster Opera (2013), Search- ing for Suzi: a flash novel (2009), Live From Palestine (2003), and three anthologies of flash fiction including Fast Forward: The Mix Tape (2010), which was a final- ist for a 2011 Colorado Book Award. She is the creator and curator of The F-Bomb Flash Fiction Reading Series in Denver, a founding member of Fast Forward Press, and her work has been recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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