It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
AIMEE BENDERThe wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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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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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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