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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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