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A formerly published story about the effects that crossing certain cultural and personal boundaries can have on one's life. It's excerpted from my novel "Show Time," and was published in 2008 by the on-line journal Octopus Beak, which no longer exists.
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Excerpt: Years later Bobby would remember that his grief had come and gone quickly, that it had simply swept over him like a hot humid breeze, soaking his clothes. He would remember having looked in the mirror and seen his darkened skin draped over the hollow shell he had become. And he would remember trying to cry, trying to summon up the energy to move his shoulders up and down, shed tears, but that all he could do was stare himself down like it were someone else in the mirror looking back at him, a total and complete stranger, an enemy that he was going to have to fight to the death.
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