Homeland: A Panorama in 50 States. Number 12 in the Seven Kitchens Press Editor’s Series, selected by Ron Mohring.
Cover image by Roxanne Carter. Cover design by Kari Larsen.
Published: May 31, 2011 [125 copies]
ISBN-13: 978-0-9829396-2-8
59 pages
$ 12.00
Pedro Ponce‘s fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, The Beacon Best of 2001, Alaska Quarterly Review, Double Room, Witness, DIAGRAM, and Quick Fiction. For Humanities, the magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has written articles on jazz, photographer Edward Curtis, scholars’ efforts to save Sephardic Spanish, post-World War II aesthetics, the American “voice” of honky-tonk music, scholarly work on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, and how the Depression is taught in schools. He is the author of two fiction chapbooks, Superstitions of Apartment Life (Burnside Review Press) and Alien Autopsy (Willows Wept Press). He teaches at St. Lawrence University.
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I love you, said the bride.
I love you, replied the groom.
How much? asked the bride. Her stockinged foot brushed coyly at the groom’s ankle.
The groom explained the nuptial superstition which holds that the first to fall asleep on the wedding night will be the first of the wedded to die.
I hope it’s me, mused the groom. Without you, I might as well be dead.
I hope it’s me, countered the bride, I couldn’t imagine . . .
Later that night, they nestled within the sumptuous disarray of the bridal suite.
I’m sleepy, said the bride.
Me too, answered the groom.
The lights extinguished, they lay together, listening to each other breathe.
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