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Zalika Reid-Benta
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Frying Plantain
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2019
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River Mumma
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2023
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11 editions
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“Warden’s patties be like . . .
That last tweet had a bunch of replies. Someone had used the same meme but crossed out “Warden” and put “Islington,” and that correction got a “yuh dun kno” and a “nah” and an “EEDIAT TING DIS. THEY’RE ALL THE SAME PATTIES.” Another user crossed out both “Warden” and “Islington” and put “Wilson,” and someone else wrote, “Just sleepin on Downsview patties. Disrespectful.” Zalika Reid-Benta |
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“She put her hands together and then touched the sides of her fingers to her lips before speaking. “Let me see if I’m getting this. So Alicia is Frodo carrying the ring, right? And I’m like, ‘Cool, let me be your Samwise whether you want me to or not.’ And you can’t offer your bow or your axe or your sword? Even the fucking Ents got involved.”
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“Its beauty threatened to make her cry. A short, long-toothed comb like an afro pick, with an ornate handle shaped into curves and swirls. It was exactly like River Mumma: Ancient and ageless. Exquisite. Extraordinary. It had a regality to it—a power, a gravity—and it drew Alicia in. She could understand the desire to take the comb, to keep it, to own it, but she could also tell immediately that the comb could never belong to any human.”
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“She had to know what I’d only just now discovered: that peace could only exist in this family when we lied about everything, at least to each other.”
― Frying Plantain
― Frying Plantain
“It had taken three different sleepovers at three different houses for me to realize that not all families worked this way.”
― Frying Plantain
― Frying Plantain
“Being careful with my words and measuring my tone, speaking at all, is harder.”
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“First of all, names definitely matter. It’s history and . . .” She lost her train of thought. “Second of all, you should still be mourning BiWays. The fact that there are no more BiWays is a tragedy. That shit was essential, OK? Like Zellers”
― River Mumma
― River Mumma
“Its beauty threatened to make her cry. A short, long-toothed comb like an afro pick, with an ornate handle shaped into curves and swirls. It was exactly like River Mumma: Ancient and ageless. Exquisite. Extraordinary. It had a regality to it—a power, a gravity—and it drew Alicia in. She could understand the desire to take the comb, to keep it, to own it, but she could also tell immediately that the comb could never belong to any human.”
― River Mumma
― River Mumma
“She put her hands together and then touched the sides of her fingers to her lips before speaking. “Let me see if I’m getting this. So Alicia is Frodo carrying the ring, right? And I’m like, ‘Cool, let me be your Samwise whether you want me to or not.’ And you can’t offer your bow or your axe or your sword? Even the fucking Ents got involved.”
― River Mumma
― River Mumma
“Warden’s patties be like . . .
That last tweet had a bunch of replies. Someone had used the same meme but crossed out “Warden” and put “Islington,” and that correction got a “yuh dun kno” and a “nah” and an “EEDIAT TING DIS. THEY’RE ALL THE SAME PATTIES.” Another user crossed out both “Warden” and “Islington” and put “Wilson,” and someone else wrote, “Just sleepin on Downsview patties. Disrespectful.”
― River Mumma
That last tweet had a bunch of replies. Someone had used the same meme but crossed out “Warden” and put “Islington,” and that correction got a “yuh dun kno” and a “nah” and an “EEDIAT TING DIS. THEY’RE ALL THE SAME PATTIES.” Another user crossed out both “Warden” and “Islington” and put “Wilson,” and someone else wrote, “Just sleepin on Downsview patties. Disrespectful.”
― River Mumma
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