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The Party Over There.(short story)(Short Story)
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Canadian Fiction Magazine
- Article date:
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January 1, 2000
- Author:
- BAKER, NANCY
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I'D SEEN HER HERE BEFORE.
I'd first noticed her when she began to come every Friday and Saturday night and stake out the left corner of the dance floor balcony as her own. She'd get to the club at eleven or so, wind her way through the bobbing mohawks and punching fists, and somehow ease everyone else out of her space.
At first I couldn't see how she made them move -- she was small, slender and unprepossessing in a club packed with leather-clad punks and slinky aspiring groupies -- but they went. Then I realized it was her intensity.
Some people came to the club to drink, some to get laid -- she came to dance. She danced alone, ignoring all overtures with a ...