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Edra Toth was captured in one of her favorite positions, écarté, which translates from French as ‘separated’ or ‘thrown apart’ because of the way the dancer’s body seems pulled in two different directions…The fluid lines of her arms and legs glowed white against the black backdrop, and perhaps it was the old camera’s quality, but it was as if she were dancing as a mist, rising up out of the darkness…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae7bb8131d4df5a06302d1c/1625613762453-JPR67TV06RZ1YCP9IXOS/Screen+Shot+2021-07-06+at+6.18.59+PM.png Publications THE GREATEST OF FEARS | ATTICUS REVIEW “If you were to ask me what I fear most, I would tell you sharks. 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I don’t need anyone to take care of me…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae7bb8131d4df5a06302d1c/1625615247416-TZX8RJZZVMELI511DSPW/unsplash-image-0CvHQ62gwY8.jpg Publications - Make it stand out I HAVE A QUESTION | BENDING GENRES “Where were you when I prayed on the way to school? That day. Every day after that day. Were you making copies for our first fifth grade lesson that morning? Were you feeding the machine, your manicured nails tapping at the buttons? Double-sided. Black ink. Fifteen copies…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae7bb8131d4df5a06302d1c/1625613804786-UGZF45YE677SJ22AVVG3/Screen+Shot+2021-07-06+at+6.18.15+PM.png Publications - Make it stand out ON GOING FAST | LITRO MAG, EDITOR’S PICK “It’s easier going fast. Even now, as I write this, I’m on 36 mg of Ritalin, drinking my second coffee of the day. Black with one shot of espresso. Usually I order a cold brew, but Starbucks was all out. When I pointed at the cashier and called him a sinner as a joke, he did not laugh…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae7bb8131d4df5a06302d1c/1625613577861-UHOKTB54BPW4FH3MZB10/Screen+Shot+2021-07-06+at+6.12.37+PM.png Publications BOTTLES | THE RUMPUS “Shawn held the can of starter-fluid to the bottom of a glass jar and pushed the spout down, the spray pooling and foaming. I had never seen him so precise. Dedicated. 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Even now, as I write this, I’m on 36 mg of Ritalin, drinking my second coffee of the day. Black with one shot of espresso. Usually I order a cold brew, but Starbucks was all out. When I pointed at the cashier and called him a sinner as a joke, he did not laugh…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae7bb8131d4df5a06302d1c/1625613603386-PNE2JD9M9VG4M2UCFXJU/Screen+Shot+2021-07-06+at+6.19.51+PM.png Publications (Copy) “WHAT REMAINS” — RUMINATE MAGAZINE’S READERS’ NOTES “It was hard to breathe through my mask when I first saw it: rose-gold rays of the sunset stroking the floating bits of fractured cow-spine…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae7bb8131d4df5a06302d1c/1625613577861-UHOKTB54BPW4FH3MZB10/Screen+Shot+2021-07-06+at+6.12.37+PM.png Publications (Copy) “BOTTLES” — THE RUMPUS “Shawn held the can of starter-fluid to the bottom of a glass jar and pushed the spout down, the spray pooling and foaming. I had never seen him so precise. Dedicated. He wore safety goggles from his mom’s woodshop—drills and wires hanging behind him on the wall of the one-car garage…” ART BY: DAVID DODD LEE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae7bb8131d4df5a06302d1c/1625613567794-RKJBJQIJW4AHTPXTY13Z/Screen+Shot+2021-07-06+at+6.10.32+PM.png Publications (Copy) “RELEVÉ: TO RISE” — CREATIVE NONFICTION “My ballet teacher’s studio wall featured a black-and-white photograph of her dancing as the prima ballerina for Boston Ballet in the 1960s. Edra Toth was captured in one of her favorite positions, écarté, which translates from French as ‘separated’ or ‘thrown apart’ because of the way the dancer’s body seems pulled in two different directions…The fluid lines of her arms and legs glowed white against the black backdrop, and perhaps it was the old camera’s quality, but it was as if she were dancing as a mist, rising up out of the darkness…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae7bb8131d4df5a06302d1c/1625613762453-JPR67TV06RZ1YCP9IXOS/Screen+Shot+2021-07-06+at+6.18.59+PM.png Publications (Copy) “THE GREATEST OF FEARS” — THE ATTICUS REVIEW “If you were to ask me what I fear most, I would tell you sharks. 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