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Out on the High Ledge by Ronald Kovach

Out on the High Ledge by Ronald Kovach

Will could have remained a mere spectator in the water, looking on with a dozen other swimmers at Olson Falls with traces of worry etched in their upper brows as they waited silently for the muscleman to return from the deep and break the polished-glass surface on this perfect sun-kissed day.

Other People's Bodies by Becky Mandelbaum

Other People's Bodies by Becky Mandelbaum

Victoria once learned in a science class that no two things can ever really touch, that even when it looks or feels like two objects have made contact, there exists always an infinitesimally small space between their atoms, a molecular cushion of politeness or, as Victoria came to think of it, prudence.