Vanessa Cuti

Vanessa Cuti’s fiction appears in the Kenyon Review, the Indiana Review, the Cimarron Review, the Cincinnati Review, the Rumpus, Hobart, and others. She received her MFA from Stony Brook University and lives in the suburbs of New York with her family.

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Perfume for Girls

Vanessa Cuti  | 
Issue 68.2 Spring 2019

At one of the casinos, I bought a perfume for girls. eau de toilette fille, it said in silver script, butterflies caught mid-dip, flowers snaking around the Ls. My boyfriend was off somewhere and had sent me shopping. He was probably imagining me going from store to store: a blowout, a day dress, a pale […]