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Tough Cookie

short story published in the Bellevue Literary Review, Spring 2007 issue

"We're screenwriters," I say. I usually never identify myself with my career, but I want to hurl it in this woman's face, through the ten layers of her makeup. The word has a pleasant weight to it, a feeling of symmetry. I create; she just records. (excerpt)