Status Updates From Bad Behavior: Stories (Vint...

intense lol

She was delicately morbid in all her gestures,vulnerable to flattery. She veered between extrava-gant outbursts of opinion and sudden, uncertain halts, during which she seemed to look to him for approval. She was in love with the idea of intelligence, and she overestimated her own. Her sense of the world, though she presented it aggressively, could be, he sensed, snatched out from under her with little or no trouble"

alright these are maybe growing on me...

well. unfortunately "connection" hits close to home! —signed, a one-time neurotic teenage girl who desperately imprinted on not one but TWO people whom i currently have no contact with

i appreciate some of these stories and even liked "a romantic weekend" and "something nice" but i think mary gaitskill is too much of a cynic for me. still i persist because holding a book is about all i can stand to do in my current state