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June 3, 2024 | Fiction

Why We Walk with Spikes on Our Shoes

Maureen Aitken

Because Prince said sometimes it snows in April, one day it did. The snow pummeled us, then melted, then pooled on the sidewalks and in the streets, only to freeze under a full moon. The ice sealed so

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