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Volume 2 Number 2 • Fall - Winter 2010-2011
A woman limped out of a liquor store with the submissive stoop of the genuflected and the promise of a liturgy to come in a bottle. A radiant, old face with the slight tremor of the merciful, holding a brown paper bag reverently out in front of her with both hands as a priest holds a chalice. And what would be the difference? She has been living, breathing and drinking the blood of Christ in a lifetime of unparalleled singularity that the clergy, done up like showgirls in their mawkish vestments, can only read about and tediously attempt to enact.
Meg Tuite has fiction pieces in The Boston Literary Magazine, Midnight Screaming Magazine, Galleys Online Magazine, Crash Magazine, Jersey Devil Press, SLAB magazine, Ink Monkey Magazine, Blue Print Review and Fractured West out of the UK. She won a cash prize in the fiction contest at Santa Fe College for a story that was published in the Fall 2009 contest issue.