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FRESH MOZZARELLA BISCUITS

September 26, 2021 Posie Brien
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Hi, hey, a note: Thank you for your thoughts on my last post! Haven’t decided for or against the newsletter yet, so for now, we’ll just carry on with some occasional fiction here, and who knows what else, and we’ll see where life takes us…

She feels deflated—and tired of talking—when she walks into the coffee shop on Wednesday morning. The argument last night with her mother sticks to her, and she can’t shake the off-kilter feeling. She and her mother never fight; in their household, it’s her dad whose hot temper sparks the arguments. She and her siblings were always arguing with him in a comfortable, this-is-how-we-love sort of way: One minute they were shouting and slamming doors, and then by dinner time everyone was completely fine. Fights with her dad pass like a quick thunderstorm, the tension dissolving into nothingness, the chaos necessary to clear the air—just like weather.

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CHEDDAR BISCUITS

August 14, 2021 Posie Brien
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She’s been running early in the morning—before 7 AM—now that every day dawns with an oppressive blanket of humidity and heat. It’s as if the months of the summer were tentative until now, July feeling too timid to really open ‘er up, then August arrived and put its foot down, turning up the wattage and sizzling away the drizzly, cloudy weather, like a burner on high under a pan of liquid.

Even starting early doesn’t help on some days. It’s so hot that she wilts the second she steps outside to lace up her running shoes. She has no energy—and every step is like pulling her legs through something sticky and tar-like. But she does it anyway. She finishes, her shirt drenched in sweat. She slips into the cool water off the dock by the marina, hanging onto the ladder to check for jellyfish. She scans the horizon for the dot of a fin or a flicker of motion—two weeks ago her neighbors saw two dolphins flitting around the boats moored just offshore.

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BAGELS

July 19, 2021 Posie Brien
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The grass looks so much greener in the morning, she thinks, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes with her closed fists. She’s standing on the upper porch of the log cabin-style building that’s perched so close to the edge of the lake it looks, from certain angles if you’re driving past, like it’s about to tip slowly over and sink gracefully into the reedy marsh.

She wipes half-heartedly at an apple with the tail end of her t-shirt: a white short-sleeved cotton shirt with TOWSON LACROSSE emblazoned across the front in bumblebee yellow. The shirt is one of her most prized pieces of clothing right now because, after three years of constant wearing and washing, it’s reached a nearly threadbare texture that makes it fall loosely, like silk, against her shoulders. The only other shirts she has that are this thin—holes threatening to rip in the most worn areas under the armpits and near the top seams—are her mom’s: a Boston Marathon finisher t-shirt from the 70s, an old green shirt from the Burpee Seed catalog that reads “Because a Rind is a Terrible Thing to Waste,” and a faded marine blue Lacoste polo with a white collar.

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VEGAN MORNING GLORY-ISH MUFFINS

July 9, 2021 Posie Brien

I reached for a new tube of toothpaste earlier this evening (Colgate Total, if you must know.) As I stood in front of the mirror, idly pretending to wait the recommended 30 seconds before the electric toothbrush beeps, letting you know you’re mastering your dental hygiene and may move from the top to bottom teeth, the flavor of it walloped me. It was minty, like all toothpastes (unless you’re five and brushing with Tom’s of Maine Silly Strawberry, as one does)—but a very specific sort.

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LIGHTEST CIABATTA

June 5, 2021 Posie Brien

It’s a bluebird day—finally, after a week of humid, gray days where cool drizzle hung like a curtain over town. I felt my spirits sinking lower with every inch of rain, every sweatshirt I pulled on to ward off the odd May chill, every hour that felt endless, unspooling languidly, like time was some sticky molasses-like substance being poured slowly from a bottle.

The sun is bright overhead, and I could swear it’s suffusing everyone’s very being with light—we’re all thrilled that summer has arrived. Neighbors wave cheerily as they pass with their dogs, live music drifts down the street from the brewery where people sit outside drinking tall pints of summer ale, the golden light filtering through the golden liquid like some dreamy Rothko-esque canvas.

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