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The Toss
by Abby Manzella Isaac Quesada Jake tosses the baby into the air like a pizza — not violently, not angrily like Naomi always accuses him of being. He tosses the baby like the lightness of dough aloft, like a meal of your own making when the spray of flour coats your hands and cheeks — just like he and Naomi did when they were kids and it was Cooking Night at the Cantors’: that’s what his mother called it. His father would throw the dough into the air bellowing Jim Morrison’s
Sep 21, 20225 min read
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