ISSUE ONE: "Snow White’s in Texas" by Sarah Blake

Snow White’s in Texas

I went to a party on a ranch where everyone took off their clothes, playing strip beer pong, strip flip cup, strip anything. I did not take off my dress, not even when the Texas sun asked me to, not even to sleep. I got wasted and then slept in the grass, then on a bathroom floor, then in bed, all the while getting sick up on my knees until I could pull in, again, my legs to my stomach. In the morning the men passed me, bare-chested, smelling of Lone Star and cows, as if birthed from the earth of Texas, from the shit of it. They were the darlings of the new day.

Sarah blake

Sarah Blake’s books include Naamah, Let’s Not Live on Earth, Mr. West, and one chapbook, Named After Death. In 2013, she was awarded a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently lives in the U.K., but she lived most of her life in the Philadelphia area. Her second novel Clean Air is out now from Algonquin Books.

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