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.
AIMEE BENDERGlen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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