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1st Line by Carmen Rabil-Eichman

Swallowing, without a blink, the dark shot of whiskey and dragging long from her cigarette, she spat on the old wooden floor and said, “Let’s do it.”




Carmen Rabil-Eichman is an Associate Professor of English, living in Greensboro, North Carolina. She has recently received two Pushcart Prize nominations for her poetry.