things my family said in southside accents that gave me sucha a dopamine hit i wanted to miss my flight home (Romy Rhoads Ewing)

-bag
-pod
-too long since
-running through lower wacker
-muggsy bogues
-guaranteed rate field
-(g-spot for short)
-lou malnati
-oh don’t go yet
-aperitif
-psilocybin
-hey hot dog
-personal injury lawyer
-love youse

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Romy Rhoads Ewing is a writer and photographer from Sacramento, California. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in HAD, JAKE, Bullshit Lit, fifth wheel press, BRAWL, Querencia Press, Nowhere Girl Collective, Major 7th Magazine,Y2K Quarterly, and more. Her debut chapbook, please stay, was published by Bottlecap Press in 2024. She is an editor for JAKE and can be found at romyrhoadsewing.xyz. 

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image: MM Kaufman