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Author: Miranda Mellis

Miranda Mellis is the author of The Spokes, None of This Is Real, The Quarry, Materialisms, and The Revisionist as well as Demystifications (forthcoming from Solid Objects). She has a seasonal column at The Believer called The Trinocular, and teaches at The Evergreen State College where she is, at present, facilitating a program that brings together college students and incarcerated youth for co-learning.

KILL YOUR ENTHUSIASM (3)

By: Miranda Mellis

Lisa Kimmel Fisher

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BLURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (5)

By: Miranda Mellis

Phrase of future past

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KOJAK YOUR ENTHUSIASM (17)

By: Miranda Mellis

High school is the theater; classroom is the stage.

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KICK YOUR ENTHUSIASM (13)

By: Miranda Mellis

He watched me choose, stretching.

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NERD YOUR ENTHUSIASM (15)

By: Miranda Mellis

I particularly like the space “the analysis” makes for ambivalence.

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FIVE-O YOUR ENTHUSIASM (14)

By: Miranda Mellis

The mess is inside.

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FERB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (1)

By: Miranda Mellis

What is the cultural heritage of a star child?

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12 DAYS OF SIGNIFICANCE (66)

By: Miranda Mellis

Why the plastic sandwich, the rubber carrot and the brass apple?

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CARBONA YOUR ENTHUSIASM (13)

By: Miranda Mellis

“Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard…”

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MOVIE OBJECTS (9)

By: Miranda Mellis

It is liminal, this limo. It is in limbo. Ambivalent, stuck in a rut.

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KLAATU YOU (2)

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“Listen to me! I want to trade lives with you.”

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LOST OBJECTS (31)

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When I lost the black metal sequin lace scarf she didn’t notice.

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SERIOCOMIC (32)

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A tincture of female bad-ass, perennial tonic of girlhood.

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ILLICIT OBJECTS (21)

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GOLD TEETH

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