 MT. STUART ELEMENTARY FILES, Emergency Dismissal Information, Evidence of Divorce and Relocation Timeline in the Form of Index Cards No.1, Circa 1988-1989  MT. STUART ELEMENTARY FILES, Emergency Dismissal Information, Evidence of Divorce and Relocation Timeline in the Form of Index Cards No.2, Circa 1988-1989 If it's best to call work numbers, call JLD. But if I were to ride the bus home, which bus, and to which home would I be going? How long did it take KLK to retrieve her maiden name?  JLD Files, Photos of JLD, God of Earth and Water, "Mobile Phone in Work Truck Polaroid," Circa 1988  MT. STUART ELEMENTARY FILES, Emergency Dismissal Information, Evidence of Divorce and Relocation Timeline in the Form of Index Cards No.3, Circa 1988-1989 If you look closely at the / between addresses and phone numbers on each index card shown above, you can see where my heart fissured, the liminality I thereby entered at the mercy of a No. 2 pencil that probably needed to be sharpened.  SCHOLARLY WORK FILES, Liminality--Introduction, See Link Above to Read in Full  MT. STUART ELEMENTARY FILES/THE SMILE PROJECT FILES, Individual Photo Dated 1987, So Must've Been a Sibling Photo, Same Day as Nuisance Photos, Same Outfit and Hair, Minus a Necklace  MT. STUART ELEMENTARY FILES, Inside of First Grade Report Card, "Inventive Speller"  MT. STUART ELEMENTARY FILES, Front Cover and Last Page of First Grade Report Card, "Poor Attendance Record" (a Sign of Turmoil, Maybe), Also, I Didn't Enter Wickwire's Class--Mrs. Staples Was My Third Grade Teacher  FAMILY PHOTOS FILES, Likely One of the Last Photos of My Family When My Family Was Whole, Still at RT. 5 Box 635, 925-1078, Circa 1988, Looks Like Early November (P.S. Those Red Sleds Remain Legendary)  LITERARY INFLUENCES FILES, The Country Mouse and The City Mouse, Personal Copy, Book Cover  LITERARY INFLUENCES FILES, The Country Mouse and The City Mouse, Personal Copy, Title Page There it is again, below my Passport to Jesus photo: the Country Mouse becomes the City Mouse, or so it was, in part, sold to me, along with tire swing, treehouse, and--cue "Entry of the Gladiators" (see below)--a trapeze, because what girl doesn't dream of flying high, vermiculite falling on her hair like snow? How about those sound-deadening acoustic ceiling properties, while we're here: for when you have to cry yourself to sleep, or when you don't want to hear who else in the house does. But I don't mean that like woe is me, nor sentimentally--just feels like a missed opportunity otherwise.  NOTEBOOK FILES, Excerpt from the Notebook That's Missing, Circa Not November, Apparently  PEARL ST. FILES, Evidence of Tire Swing and Treehouse, Circa 1989 Liminality: a threshold, to be sure, the entrance to a house--and by extension the house itself (and thus an exit from another). That sense of ending, a gate or barrier between two separate fields or spheres--the indeterminacy and in-betweenness, so unascribable, indescribable. Neither here nor there. But wandering the periphery of existence, the uncertain fringe of I have/I had (see below):  EDITIONS FILES/ First Edition, "I Have a Pet Deer" (Duct Tape Binding) by Sonya Dunning, Circa 1987-1988 NOTE TO FIRST EDITION EDITOR/S: pending the author's approval, please consider switching tense from present to past.  LITERARY INFLUENCES FILES, The Country Mouse and The City Mouse, Personal Copy, The Country Mouse Runs from the City (She Runs and Runs and Runs) Country Mouse/City Mouse--cute analogy, sure.
Except, the thing is, the Country Mouse in question will always want to leave the city, and she will (she'll run and run and run).
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