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Marta Pelrine-Bacon

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	The Blue Jar 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fairy Tale Review, The Ochre Issue (Fairy Tale Review, #12) by Kate Bernheimer (Editor), Courtney Bird (Contributor), Caroline Cabrera (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whigmaleeries & Wives' Tales by Jessica Augustsson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jason Lairamore (Goodreads Author), Mike Adamson 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Song of Sahel by Niamh Clune (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shirani Rajapakse (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Sue Lobo (Contributor) 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Brief History of Boyfriends: stories 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Tidings: Tales to Read by the Fire by Dark Tidings: A Fiction Collective, John E. Simpson, Danielle Davis really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Moon I Made

I went as the night sky for Halloween. Below is me with the moon I made.

Now the moon hangs in my office window. I rarely open the blind, so it isn’t going to block the view. Mostly I don’t open the blind because if I do, too much sunlight streams in and it’s hot enough already. But also because the view in the neighbor’s house. One of the neighbors used to stand there between our houses,

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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)

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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

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The Wayward and the Seeking: A Collection of Writings by Jean Toomer

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“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: birth, identity, life, self

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“Never run from anything immortal. It only attracts their attention.”
― 19, Psychomotor Agitation: A Vivisection

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“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: books

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“Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

tags: truth

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