BETWEEN THE SHEETS by Essence Bonitaz

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Drifting Apart
A letter to Essence
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Omniscient
The elevator doors barely open onto the second floor intensive care unit, when Nora rushes to get off. She stops abruptly at the sight of my brother in…
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FRAGILE
“Package for a Señorita Bonita Ysabela Martinez Galvan-Perez,” the delivery guy drones, handing me his pen for my signature. “What a mouthful,” he says…
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CAUGHT
I slide my key in the deadbolt, but the door is already unlocked. I enter, leave my shoes in the foyer and head upstairs. Wifey is sitting on the couch…
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Dark Horse
Five-thirty PM snowflakes brighten the darkening Minneapolis skyline through Shoua’s eighteenth floor windows. My therapist—a Hmong woman with a…
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Love of a Lifetime
“I know it could work this time. Alejandra is the love of my life, but I can’t give her the extravagant things she has grown accustomed to,” he says…
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FIGURES
I look up from my iPad in the ER family waiting room. I'm horrified. Through puddling tears, I recognize the blurry figures dressed in white, huddled in…
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Out of Bounds
A hint of what's to come in the Ajha's Web sequel
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BETWEEN THE SHEETS by Essence Bonitaz
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BETWEEN THE SHEETS by Essence Bonitaz

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