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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Phantasm
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'Over November I house-sat and did things like flick through the books on their bookshelves and go through their home movies, watching and rewatching their children being born. I found the family's Christmas stash, deep in the master bedroom's closet, and from that stash took out the foot bath and slid it back into its box after use. I didn't feel bad about this as I took great care to wipe out any dead skin and reasoned that the water and salts in the foot bath were hot enough to kill anything that might linger. Afterwards I would dry my feet on their carpet and slowly paint my toenails...' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Voiceworks no. 102 Summer 2015-2016 16806596 2015 periodical issue 2015-2016 pg. 28-33
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