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Two Serious Ladies is named for the 1943 short novel by Jane Bowles.

“I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.”


― Jane Bowles
Two Serious Ladies

 

Two Serious Ladies

May 5
May 5 Kin, Sugar, Post Divide by Molly Brodak

Lauren Spohrer
Poetry

Time made into a fence. That’s storytelling.

Apr 26
Apr 26 MONKS by JoAnna Novak

Lauren Spohrer
Fiction

We grew up feasting, the three of us split one flap steak, white bread to mop the grease, button mushrooms, milk. My dad told me to remain with my wife and demalice my mother.

Dec 15
Dec 15 Via Negativa by Maggie Millner

Lauren Spohrer
Poetry

My life is a long, slow nip-slip

Nov 28
Nov 28 A Sideways Speech by Caroline Kepnes

Lauren Spohrer
Fiction

Sep 6
Sep 6 (Baby, Let Us) by Catherine Lacey

Two Serious Ladies
Fiction

It was my birthday and so he wanted to do something good to distract me from the bad of this, the years ticked, that sick ritual.

Aug 23
Aug 23 Professor2 by Szilvia Molnar

Lauren Spohrer
Poetry

Once he posted comments on an outdated blog of mine, describing my face in the pictures with words you usually use for ripe fruit. More than once he took my words to replace them with his.

Jul 28
Jul 28 Mimi, Claude, Sam, Chloe and Marcel by Eugénie de Rosier

Lauren Spohrer
Fiction

Jun 8
Jun 8 Navy of the Sick by Heidi Julavits

Two Serious Ladies
Fiction

I dressed, ate very little breakfast, did Mundane Egg with Marta, played backgammon with Borka, ate very little lunch, took the lift to the basement

Apr 20
Apr 20 Macelleria 86 by Carrie Vasios Mullins

Lauren Spohrer
Fiction

You see I was supposed to open and be co-proprietor of Macelleria 86. Instead, I was the recipient of an envelope with the store’s name embossed on the back. It was quite the reversal of events.

Apr 5
Apr 5 Two Poems by Rachel Statham

Lauren Spohrer
Poetry

This isn’t a declaration.
This is a showcase of my talents—
getting drunk and sitting down.

Apr 2
Apr 2 Ceramics by Debra Broz

Lauren Spohrer
Art

Mar 5
Mar 5 How to Make Space Disappear by Amy Fusselman

Two Serious Ladies
Fiction

This adult-generated stream of language, which generally completely bypasses the idea that space is itself a medium that can be experienced and responded to sensitively, for everyone’s benefit, is like an incantation that is darkly magical in that it makes space disappear.

Feb 2
Feb 2 "Portion" by Diane Williams

Two Serious Ladies
Fiction

The leaves shade a girl. They shade three identical girls.

Oct 12
Oct 12 Five New Poems by Rachel B. Glaser

Two Serious Ladies
Poetry

you have the right face for everything except charity work except zookeeper  

Jun 6
Jun 6 B o r d e r l i n e A r s P o e t i c a by Vivian Sanchbraj

Lauren Spohrer
Poetry

My best girlfriend so ugly I skipped the kissing part.

Jun 6
Jun 6 Acta Diurna by Laynie Browne

Lauren Spohrer
Essay, Poetry

That’s why it’s not intimate.

Jun 6
Jun 6 Tower Records by Vanessa Norton

Lauren Spohrer
Fiction

I've touched the interiors of too many mouths to feel anything for them anymore.

Apr 25
Apr 25 Strictures by Hannah Regel

Lauren Spohrer
Fiction, Poetry

My body a desk

Apr 25
Apr 25 Freinds by Caren Beilin

Lauren Spohrer
Essay, Fiction, Poetry

She marries Ross.

Apr 22
Apr 22 "Congrats, Alice" by Alice Wilder

Lauren Spohrer
Essay

In July, a police officer called while I was at work.

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“Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.”
― Jane Bowles

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