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A Few Words about Fake Breasts

Nell Boeschenstein

‘You repeat this over and over. You pinch your nipples harder. Then harder and harder still. You twist them. You dare them to say Mercy. You stare into your own eyes that are watching you from the mirror.’

Nell Boeschenstein

Nell Boeschenstein's work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, the Oxford American, Ecotone, the Guardian and elsewhere. She lives in Chartlottesville, Virginia.

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