oh! this resonates with me!
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Marie Howe, The Affliction
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“I call it sex because I don’t know how else to say terrified of dying. Silence ruins everything. It says: you will not get your wings this way not the wings you want and you want more than anybody. I have wanted many unfair things.”
— Melissa Broder, “Satisfy the Desolate,” published in Banango Street
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i never aimed to give you a talisman!! i had something to say to you!!!!!!!!
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because the color is half the taste by Paige Lewis
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I’m gnashing my teeth like a child of Cain
If this is a prison I’m willing to bite my own chain
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Eden Robinson, “Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted”
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Robert Wood Lynn, “Bringing a Gun to Chekhov’s House”
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Jean Anouilh, Antigone (tr. Lewis Galantiere)
Antigonick, Anne Carson
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i love when academics are like this
from the translator's introduction in my copy of antigone... she's his blorbo.... <3
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"Look" by Franny Choi, published in The Atlantic
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you can be nothing to everyone, but you are everything to someone
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i read CS Lewis’ A Grief Observed one time years ago and i’m still not recovered from it
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another age by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
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