Caroline

“Romance was awful. She couldn't even murder people anymore.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“Horror gives us a vocabulary to talk about everything our society represses, fears, and marginalizes through a genre that is itself often relegated to the margins despite its popularity and profitability. We fear horror, not just because monsters and jump scares, but because we see ourselves in it.”
― Alexandra West, Gore-Geous: Personal Essays on Beauty and Horror

“I often wonder what's wrong with me. Before I was aware of the way anxiety could grip the body and wring it dry of joy, I named my ailment "the balloon". The balloon is the extra organ inside of my chest that inflates of its own accord, plugs up my ears, and suffocates me from within. On bad days, my vision blurs. Nights when it feels like the balloon is swelling and crowding the blood and muscle, I roll onto the floor and do push-ups until it deflates. When that doesn't work, I sleep with the TV set to anything at all. It doesn't matter, so long as it keeps my thoughts from veering inward. Had Mayra ever felt the balloon? Of course she had, I sometimes thought. Other times, I wondered whether she'd run far and fast enough throughout her life that she'd avoided it altogether.”
― Nicky Gonzalez, Mayra

“All Shesheshen could do for Homily was be patient with her, and make space for her, and eventually, one day behind her back, eat her mother.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In