Nude Awakenings: Grayscale by Ilana Masad. Dirty Chai. Spelling comes first of all. Write well, Mom always told me. Do good in school. The walls are gray. My chair, hair, gray too. I smoke, even though the sign says No. Once, I sparked red and blue and gold. I could run a mile, two, twelve. Nude awakenings by Tina Griffith - Monday Magazine posted May 24, 2012 at 1:00 PM Nude beaches are closer than you think — just around the bend from Thetis Lake.
I could sing and dance. I had soul. Still do, I guess. All of them, even kids. They skip down the street, hopscotch, one- two- three, I win, no I do, blank- faced. Is a word I might use. Not just kids, by the by. Those my age too, gray- haired and arm- pudged with fucked tax returns. They stay home and play games. They call in sick when they. There were bugs in the rooms she lived in and we moved a lot and skipped rope in yards on the way from one place to the next. I ate dirt when I was four and she made me spit it out. She taught me to read, she said, but I think I just knew. Like birds know how to fly and fish know how to swim and Mom knew what to be scared of. She. There are bugs here too. My pubic hair is gray. My tongue is gray too, I think, but I don. Mark up with a red pen, read their words, tell them right or wrong. There is no betweening. Dirty Chai’s latest publication in the Nude Awakenings column comes to us from Ilana Masad, who was inspired to write “Grayscale” during her senior year of college after her “really kickass writing teacher” assigned the piece “We Were Our Age” by Dawn Raffel—a. I saw a gray pen in the shop one day, and thought I should get it, keep things thematic. But some things are too much. I was shaving my face there to catch the blood. No mirrors means more cuts, so I take baths now. I looked at the drops of red and thought about all the ex- wives I could have had. I think the pills work now. I think I just see the fear now. I thought it was crazy once. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Mc. Sweeney’s, Printer’s Row, Hypertext Magazine, and more. Among her too many jobs, she is also the founder and host of The Other Stories podcast, a platform for new, emerging, and struggling writers’ voices. Want to submit to Nude Awakenings? Dirty Chai is looking. They will bare challenging and unique perspectives. They will be the products of pure human emotion. Submissions to Nude Awakenings are currently closed.
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