Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
AIMEE BENDERListen. 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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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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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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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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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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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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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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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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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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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 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 can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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