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my women scorned come to the FRONT

on a cruise celebrating her second wedding anniversary, joey perrone is tossed overboard by her husband, who, through his many flaws, has no discernible reason to attempt to murder her. joey survives the fall, but she isn’t going to the police. legally declared dead, she’s making it her business to figure out why her husband did what he did. and maybe drive him a bit insane along the way.

think She-Devil (1989)

Jay Gardiner and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

I knew squids and orcas were the assholes of the ocean ecosystem

“tastes the bitter cherry of collapsing lungs” the most enthralling poetry I’ve read has been daniel kraus writing about a seventeen year old boy’s body failing him as he’s inside the stomach of a gigantic sperm whale tbh

“He’ll rebuild himself. Find himself. Be found by others. Reconnect with friends. Figure out a love life. Repair his grades. Set up a future he wants. Harden those lungs softened by too much crying, too much mothering. He’ll show them all.” JAY 😭

I see why this author holds a Pulitzer

that detail on the teeth grooves no longer fitting because jay’s been clenching his jaw all his life navigating a world of hostiles? wow

jay made me a boy mom™️

“People aren’t doors. They’re whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost inside them you become.”
oh I’m in for a great time huh

this feels like a Witchcraft for Wayward Girls prequel

“But why do you do it?” he persisted. “It’s dangerous. It’s exhausting. Frankly . . . it’s terrifying. You’re smart. You could do anything. Why this?”

“Would you ask a man that?” Emma gave him a direct look.

emma makepeace the woman that you are