Jenny Pritchett's Writings
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Short Story
Jul.26.2008
Northwest Review
Lisa's parents padlocked the basement door, but we found the key behind the silverware tray. She played guitar, read to me from her novel, drank Pepsi and smoked Marlboro Lights until her parents went to sleep. Then we left.
We could have gone around the cemetery, but we liked to climb the fence. We smoked on the tombstones and Lisa showed me the...
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Short Story
Jul.26.2008
Fiction Attic; Best of the Web 2008, Dzanc Books
At first Antonia thought of a shipwreck. The boy and the girl peeled off their clothes, but they were on their knees in the middle of a bed with the bedclothes hiked around their thighs, and the sheets were red so she thought of a sea of blood and had to focus on the pale flesh of their bodies–his concave chest and half-erect penis bobbing like a mole from its...
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About Jenny
Jenny Pritchett's debut collection, At or Near the Surface, was published by Fourteen Hills Press in Fall 2008. The collection won the 2008 Michael Rubin Chapbook Award, judged by Tin House managing editor Holly MacArthur. Stories have appeared in Southwest...