I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
AIMEE BENDERWhen language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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I 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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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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