Lines of Affection — Helen Marshall

Marissa must come to grips with the dangerously seductive stranger her estranged parents invite into her home. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, this short story is one of a set of fifteen quirky and cutting parables about history, memory, and the cost of creating art.

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