My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
AIMEE BENDERThat 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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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