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Icarus
Tamara Natt

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“She spends her days as the widow of a woman she has never met.
She wears black.
And visits the butcher, the market and the newsagent for the morning paper, pushing a canvas trolley in front of her that carries heavy bags of loneliness that the skin beneath her eyes can no longer bear …”