Fightin' Words with Ruth LeFaive

Have you checked out our November issue yet? It's pretty dynamite. And it includes Ruth LeFaive's Best Small Fictions-nominated flash, "Clean Girls." She offers a few more words (and some great cats) to us here, with the single best word for these burning questions: 

1)      What you're avoiding: pain
2)      What you're thankful for: health
3)      The first frost-covered morning: sugar
4)      Your sense of style: fleece
5)      Finishing a book: melancholy
6)      Something that smells different than it  tastes: tears
7)      What you want: relevance
8)      What embarrasses you: ignorance