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Best-selling author Melanie Gideon reads from her novel Wife 22.

The light is like a benediction. My husband reaches for my hand.

My job requires me to make things disappear like a Vegas magician.

Appearance does not really appear, but it appears to appear.

The window washer smiles a little and licks his lips. Nadine smiles back.

won’t you celebrate with me that every day has tried to kill me

There were so many tired, frayed words thick in the air around her.

You ask, Could we have coffee? No, my truth, I’m still on this side.

“Fuck you,” I said, but it was hard to say it with any meaning.

There were classes where you became a family. It was a kind of love affair.

Her cheek was like a plum about to burst and you had to close your eyes.

and still it is summer and each day the sun arouses the kudzu