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To Have and to Hold by Eric Bennett

Tucker[i] adores[ii] Alina[iii].
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[i] Licensed undertaker.
[ii] Poses the face: closes the mouth, stitches the lips together, pulls the lids down. If the eyes aren’t closed they gape open and since they’re composed primarily of water, the eyes tend to dehydrate and sink detracting from the appearance.
[iii] Cadaver.




Eric Bennett lives in New York with his wife and four children. He loves trees without leaves and the silence between songs on a vinyl record. His work appears in numerous literary and art journals including Bartleby Snopes, Prick of the Spindle, Dogzplot Flash Fiction 2009 Anthology, LITnIMAGE, and PANK.