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A Flawless Silence

This story ended too abruptly for me. What I will say is that while silence is not content in any manner. Her 20+ YEARS of silence is not flawless, it is deeply flawed.

A Common Life

A longer short story compiled of 3 essential parts. Protein, Hypothesis, and Contract. What does it all mean? There is something that connects us all.

Now that have read this chapter, I am more secure than ever to be someone always searching for answers, for knowledge, for truth.

These past few stories have been thought provoking and frankly frustrating. I find the content alone very interesting but the characters I was following were annoying and simple. Hoping for better going forward.

Hello, Goodbye.

From small moments to big emotions, everything passes in time. “Hello, sadness. Goodbye, sadness”.

While I’m realizing a through line of these short stories is something undoubtedly maternal, each story, to me, is largely unrelated to motherhood. Instead, each story shares another trait, a different universal truth. Absence and time.

I’m quite enjoying this book so far. Excited to continue.

The sheltered woman

Not much to say about this story. It’s sad, and static except for the few moments where there’s the slightest development of change.

This woman is one who believes that “being known, … must not be far from being imprisoned by someone else’s thought” and wishes not to burden others with forgetting her. She is someone I used to be.

An inner monologue of sorts, we open to a story of grief. We see a mother who has lost her daughter to suicide nearly 4 years prior. We aptly watch as she grapples with grief, unpacks her relationship with her mother, distances herself but loves her husband, and most poignantly, wonders what we all do in this situation - was it her fault?

This, like those to come, stands alone. Finished, but never ending.

How many crashes will happen?

Same thoughts as before. I cannot believe this isn’t fiction.

This feels like a work of fiction. With the way it’s structured and how descriptive the stories are, it feels so real in such a fictitious way. I’m excited to get farther in.

He understands so much more than I could ever express and it’s scary. Feeling seen by someone you want so badly to dislike but simultaneously pitying them is a recipe for self hatred and self reflection. I don’t like it one bit (I love this book so much I can’t put it into words).

Honestly, when I started this I hated her but as time goes on, I’m beginning to under and relate. I just wish every character wasn’t so loathsome.

My brain hurts so nicely.

This is fascinating. I’m gonna try to finish it today.

“Thank you for finding me” This is so cheesy but I love (just about) every moment of it.

I have a real bad feeling about how this is going to end.

What am I reading. I don’t understand how this could possibly end.

WHICH ONE OF YOU FREAKS DECIDED NOT TO TELL ME. I deserved a warning.

God. Travel diaries are largely boring and he’s sick but isn’t saying so. Why?

“The only consolation would be: it happens whether you like or no. And what you like is of infinitesimally little help. More than consolation is: You too have weapons”.