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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

by Tananarive Due (Goodreads Author)

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When the World Tips Over

by Jandy Nelson (Goodreads Author)

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MJ’s Notes & Highlights

Out There by Kate Folk

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Reese moved her limbs in a mechanical dance. She focused on her joints, imagining bones turning in the sockets of other bones, rattling at the ends of strings.

A Study in Drowning

by Ava Reid

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The Grace Year

by Kim Liggett

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“The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light. But depending on the amount of light you have inside, determines which lamp in the sky your heart will swoon.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: butterfly, heart, human-nature, lamp, life, light, living, moon, moth, sun

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“The first time I heard you laugh,
I only wanted to say funny things
so you would always be laughing.
You know what happens to chocolate
when you leave it out in the sun?
I’m that unfortunate chocolate
and you, you are the laughing sun.
For this reason, I am offering myself to you
not as a martyr or some selfless fool,
but as a self-indulgent moth
who actively pursues the light
without much fear for the flame.
The moth who revels in the heat
and declares:
Burn me.”
― Kamand Kojouri

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