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published October 2009

Julia Story was raised in Indiana and now lives in Somerville, MA.  Her first book, Post Moxie, will be published by Sarabande Books in May 2010.

from Post Moxie

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You do too have a soul, I tell him absent­mind­edly while mend­ing last year’s swim­suit. I won’t date any­one who can’t buy his own oint­ment, I add. We aren’t dat­ing, we’re adher­ing. I don’t believe, I refer. “Oinkment,” my neigh­bor from Portugal said sheep­ishly: the punch line to the first joke he learned in this crappy language.

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