Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
AIMEE BENDERGlen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
AIMEE BENDERLanguage is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
AIMEE BENDERMom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
AIMEE BENDERI give boring people something to discuss over corn.
AIMEE BENDERWe hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
AIMEE BENDERIt is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
AIMEE BENDERWhile she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
AIMEE BENDERBut what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
AIMEE BENDERThe writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
AIMEE BENDERTo see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
AIMEE BENDERThe wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
AIMEE BENDERThis is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
AIMEE BENDERA Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
AIMEE BENDERI was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
AIMEE BENDERMy lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
AIMEE BENDERI have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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