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About the Author
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The Moon is Cotton & She Laugh All Night
By Tracy Debrincat
Excerpt
Gazelle legs splay out, neck muscles ripple fine she dainty swig dark emerald murk at summer water hole.
Empty belly alligator imitate vicious, hungry log, blink watchful amber eye.
Shady banyan branch. Hippo bead on both, sigh over tasty business mossy bottom lettuce.
Without half try, alligator laz y snap ragged jaws.
Gazelle, mid-swallow, caught in vise of yellow, pointy teeth.
Alligator think, “Ha! Lunch!” Saliva drool for gazelle bonbon of loin & ankle, ear & thigh.
Hippo, she say, “Fuck that shit!” Make Nijinsky leap into blood-streak whirlpool, knock alligator on the bean, pluck gazelle from slack-jaw astonish & lay her gentle on riverbank, out of daze old lizard reach.
Alligator slink down fast. Eye blast venom, appetite.
Hippo nudge gazelle sable head into her mouth, cushion fat pink tongue under skull like a pillow.
“Ha! Lunch redux!” alligator spit.
But no.
Hippo whisper secrets into blissful, ignorant gazelle. Say, “Moon is cotton & she laugh all night. Birds sing to measure the age of the world. Fish rather dance than swim. Time to run. Time to run.”
Gazelle open eyes, crusty & surprise. Wishbone lungs fill with river-horse secrets, heart pound like prayer as she birth herself from hippo mouth, bow once & scamper Bambi-style away, dribbling urine like to say, “Man! Did you catch that?”
Reviews
“Vivid, sensuous, supremely imaginative—these compelling
stories chart the landscapes of the disenfranchised, the idiosyncrasies of families and found families, the love that grows from the shimmer of asphalt on a highway at 3 a.m. In prose that is both surprisingly lush and gritty, DeBrincat leads us into the adventures of her quirky, fascinating characters chock full of hilarity and heartbreak. This is a remarkably
powerful debut voice on the fiction scene.”
Cathy Colman,
author of Borrowed Dress and Beauty’s Tattoo
About the Author
Tracy Debrincat is a freelance creative advertising consultant in the entertainment industry. Much to the surprise of her family and friends, she loves living in Los Angeles. Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night is her first book.
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