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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
| Issue 34: | Sept. 2026 |
| Cheribun: | 65 words |
By Billie Dee
Locale
At a table on the Champs-Élysées—napkins fanned
like peacock tails, stemware gleaming—our conversation
drifts from Delacroix to revolution.
Place de la Concorde
I thumb my phone, pretending to study the wine list.
the cashmere at my throat
begins to itch
Smile unfocused, my mind slips back to a certain night
so many years ago...
l’apache
and that straight-razor flash
in old Pigalle
—Long-listed Finalist in MacQ’s Cheribun Challenge #4
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