![]() “It must be the dust in here.” She eats another bite. She keeps shifting in her chair and itching. Like a mouse running under a fitted sheet. I sense a secret in the misses of the conversation. ![]() She describes a mushroom she saw to me, and I tell her I’ll look it up. When she got home, she says, she took a walk through the woods. She can tell the operations manager is going to drive her bananas. Julie’s excited to spend more time with her again. She lives on the other side of town, near the high school. She tells me that Connie just broke up with her boyfriend. She currently teaches at Northeastern Illinois University & StoryStudio Chicago & is the web nonfiction editor for Hobart. ![]() ![]() Jac Jemc is the author of My Only Wife, a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Robert W. The real estate agent assures them it is just the house settling, but this house has its own plans for the couple. Touring their prospective suburban home, Julie and James are stopped by a noise. The following is from Jac Jemc’s novel, The Grip Of It. ![]()
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