Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
AIMEE BENDERI watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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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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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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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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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