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Caption: REVELATION UNDERGROUND a little word studio tale
Caption: Words by Melissa Marni
Art by Pixar's Mike Wu
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Caption: S U B T I T L E
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Caption: The subway car made its way toward 59th Street, a metal serpent slinking beneath Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
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Caption: Moments before, the doors of the 1 train had slid open and four or five sleepy passengers emerged, settling with their foil-wrapped deli lunches onto blue plastic seats.
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Caption: It was the dance of the morning commuter and Ava Chase once knew it well, this synchronized tango of detachment performed between tiled subway walls. One woman smiled at Ava as she entered and the wide, yellow-toothed grin fell into the corned-beef air, offbeat and unreturned.
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Caption: Where was the good in goodness? Ava thought. What ordinance could be drawn from the ordinary?
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Caption: Exactly two days had passed since Ava’s editor called her writing “crusty.” Then, with a flitter of a French-manicured hand, she told Ava the magazine was dissolving its musical theater department. Another wave and her editor said despite the crusty writing, Ava could probably find a job at some publication that valued good entertainment reporting and an ordinary style of prose.
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Caption: The feeling of joblessness was similar to the feeling of weightlessness (or so Ava imagined) and she floated on distracted clouds since losing her position with Matte Magazine ...
Caption: ... sleeping in her navy Versace suit, keeping her two-days unwashed hair in its taut bun atop her head and riding the 1 train to nowhere.
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Caption: Read the full story: http://goo.gl/tlX0PV
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