One Shots: Alicia
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Her flashlight dies inside the cave. She gets wedged in the fissure on the way out — upper body in morning air, lower half in the dark, nowhere to go.
A man's voice. Then his hands. Then the rest of it.
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- Part 1 of One Shots: Alicia
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She knows who was in the cave. She goes back anyway.
Sequel to Spelunked. Part of One Shots: Alicia.
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- Part 2 of One Shots: Alicia
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Cole comes home in June and leaves August twenty-ninth. Somewhere in between, she stopped keeping track. He never asked.
*We should be more careful,* he says. She says yeah. Neither of them says what careful looks like.
Third part of One Shots: Alicia.
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- Part 3 of One Shots: Alicia
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September. Her period doesn't come. She calls Cole.
He says *you know what you need to do* and leaves the end off the sentence. He thinks they've agreed.
They haven't.
Fourth part of One Shots: Alicia.
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- Part 4 of One Shots: Alicia
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She's twenty-two weeks when Cole comes home for Christmas. Both families at the table — seven chairs, her mom's idea, the gracious thing to do.
The house empties the day after.
He finishes with both hands flat against her belly, feeling through the skin for what he made. She stays against the counter until his car would be back in two hours.
Nate comes by that evening. He doesn't know.
Fifth part of One Shots: Alicia.
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- Part 5 of One Shots: Alicia
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She goes into labor at two in the morning. Nate answers on the second ring.
Between contractions, she asks him what he said to his mom in December. He tells her. *I said it didn't matter who.* The next contraction starts. He puts his hand over hers on the rail.
The baby is a girl. Nate's dad signs the form. Nate's name is on it. Nobody mentions a test.
Cole arrives at three in the afternoon. He holds her once. His face does something. He says she's beautiful and leaves.
Sixth part of One Shots: Alicia.
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- Part 6 of One Shots: Alicia
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Two years since the baby was born. Nate's jacket is on the hook by the door. His toothbrush is in the second slot of the holder.
Sunday dinners at his parents', Mae running down the hall when she hears his car.Cole comes home in April. He texts her mom the day before.
Final part of One Shots: Alicia.
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- Part 7 of One Shots: Alicia