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It was like the slow burn of a dynamite fuse. The spark kept on running toward the detonator, with nothing to prevent the blow.

As a consequence of these and other experiments, Professor D. has come up with a model of an integrated Universal brain, through which all living things communicate with one another and with the outside world.

Great literature is supposed to teach us how to live a proper life. But it's hard to make out sometimes what 'proper' means, exactly, when you're in the middle of it.

I loved being pregnant with Thomas. I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat. If only one could stay pregnant forever, un-alone like that for eternity.

One short story a day keeps the doctor away.

It's been a while (or maybe never?) since I read a short story collection where I'm just like, "Yes yES YES" about every single story.

Well, fuck.