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She Sang a Song She Did Not Sing

5/11/2019

 
by DAN TREMAGLIO
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"I have a mandolin, I play it all night long, it makes me want to kill myself" -—The Magnetic Fields
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​She wanted to write a song. 
​
She did not want to write a song.
​ 
She loved music and how it made her
feel and was born to write and play it. 
​
She might have been tone deaf. 

​She never felt more alive than when
performing in front of people. 


She was often terrified and never far
from bed. 

She did not own an alarm clock because
she could open her eyes at any exact
minute and more often passed the entire
night pacing the villa of her imagination
in the nude and moonlight. 
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Babyface Rafferty

5/11/2019

 
by JOE BONGIORNO
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Burning by Alvaro Tapia | Flickr

​The whirring hum of the cryptocurrency rig resonated through the Hochelaga apartment. Accustomed to the noise, Benjy Rafferty rewound the VHS amateur pro wrestling tape. Nailed it, he thought with pride as he watched his younger, teenage self in star-studded tights, the babyface scripted to be cheered on by the fans, execute a perfect piledriver on the heel, Vince Vendetta. At sixteen, one year after the tape was filmed, he dropped out of school and gave up wrestling to sell pot and counterfeit bills full time, making more money than his mother did as a receptionist at the dental clinic.

What time was it? Wednesday’s first light shone through the living room curtains. He finished the bottle of Crème de Menthe, the only liquor left in the cabinet and snorted a ten-milligram line of oxy off his roommate’s thesaurus. The rush was immediate. The fidgeting and tapping of his hands and feet let up; the buzzing of his ADHD came to a full stop. The painkiller’s weight and warmth amplified by the three-day binge. Now that the edge was taken off, he leaned his head back and smirked at the ceiling.


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