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Regrets
It begins as a jerk behind her rib cage, then becomes a spasm, a beautiful ripple of muscle moving along her sides
as she tucks her tail along her belly, flattens her ears into a helmet and hunkers, head bowed
as if she owed the earth an apology for eating something she is now going to return so unceremoniously.
The gag reflex catches. She smiles a tight lipped grin, opens her mouth, bares her teeth and chokes up
the item that just moments before seemed too tasty to pass up, some thing so enticing that she couldn’t
decide whether to wear it or eat it. She dipped one shoulder, thoughtfully, anticipating the fragrance
matted around her ears and throat, the odor so intense that it will cause her eyes to water, but she changes
her mind, gulps it down whole— her usual oh-why-not response to a universe so full of delights
that no one can resist a taste. And if the impulse is a mistake, just bring it up, move on.
Cathryn Essinger
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:hi:
RL
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