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"Take It From Me" David Levithan
It's interesting to think about the things people collect and the emotion it brings them. David's collection, I think, made then feel connected to people and the world around him, while his friend's box of doubts served the same function as a journal. I wonder about my own collections, real or figurative, and what they give to me.
— Nov 15, 2025 10:01PM
It's interesting to think about the things people collect and the emotion it brings them. David's collection, I think, made then feel connected to people and the world around him, while his friend's box of doubts served the same function as a journal. I wonder about my own collections, real or figurative, and what they give to me.
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"Sweet Everlasting" by M. T. Anderson
Climax is a peak for a reason---whoever reaches it must, necessarily descend. If they do not, if they must forever remain at this great height, it will lose all of its luster. So be careful what you wish for! Pleasure cannot last forever, there must be pain and discontent; otherwise, there is no pleasure after all.
— Nov 23, 2025 05:00PM
Climax is a peak for a reason---whoever reaches it must, necessarily descend. If they do not, if they must forever remain at this great height, it will lose all of its luster. So be careful what you wish for! Pleasure cannot last forever, there must be pain and discontent; otherwise, there is no pleasure after all.
Keren
is on page 239 of 272
"A Recording for Carole Before It All Goes" by Jason Reynolds
Collecting memories, the everyday ones & the big ones, can so powerfully change the experience of losing someone. In this story, a young person collects stories for their grandmother who is forgetting things slowly due to Alzheimer's, and while, ostensibly, they're doing it for Grandma, it's also a powerful way to keep her even when she's gone.
— Nov 23, 2025 05:14AM
Collecting memories, the everyday ones & the big ones, can so powerfully change the experience of losing someone. In this story, a young person collects stories for their grandmother who is forgetting things slowly due to Alzheimer's, and while, ostensibly, they're doing it for Grandma, it's also a powerful way to keep her even when she's gone.
Keren
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"We Are Looking For Home" by A.S. King
For contentment, for belonging, for acceptance, for uniqueness. We so often fail, doomed in our efforts by inner doubts and demons that lie and bully and mislead. We covet confidence and surety, and that same confidence and surety leads to self doubt. It's hard to break out of this loop, but home is on the outside.
— Nov 20, 2025 06:28PM
For contentment, for belonging, for acceptance, for uniqueness. We so often fail, doomed in our efforts by inner doubts and demons that lie and bully and mislead. We covet confidence and surety, and that same confidence and surety leads to self doubt. It's hard to break out of this loop, but home is on the outside.
Keren
is on page 207 of 272
"Pool Bandits" by G. Neri
It's a 1970's summer, heat visible in the air and not a raindrop in sight. Kids roam the streets, the beaches, the ditches, and the backyards of people on vacation. There's freedom in sneaking into fences, draining pools to share the bowl...full days of trying and failing until you can fly.
— Nov 19, 2025 08:04PM
It's a 1970's summer, heat visible in the air and not a raindrop in sight. Kids roam the streets, the beaches, the ditches, and the backyards of people on vacation. There's freedom in sneaking into fences, draining pools to share the bowl...full days of trying and failing until you can fly.
Keren
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"La Concha" e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
A collection of jars, of titles, of small moments together in a closet of the self, protected from His abuse and a mother's seeming death. This one reflects life and poetry. Beautiful.
— Nov 18, 2025 07:43PM
A collection of jars, of titles, of small moments together in a closet of the self, protected from His abuse and a mother's seeming death. This one reflects life and poetry. Beautiful.
Keren
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"Play House" by Anna-Marie McLemore
I grew increasingly more tense as the men arrived and grew in number, there to "protect" but, in fact, a threat to the two lone and beautiful women too polite to refuse to play hostess. I felt the threat in my bones, wanting to pull the protective circle of other women together, while in the story, the other women ripped the vulnerable women apart with their eyes.
— Nov 12, 2025 06:00PM
I grew increasingly more tense as the men arrived and grew in number, there to "protect" but, in fact, a threat to the two lone and beautiful women too polite to refuse to play hostess. I felt the threat in my bones, wanting to pull the protective circle of other women together, while in the story, the other women ripped the vulnerable women apart with their eyes.
