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“The things she says are disjointed, but familiar; Benson recognizes a quote from “Moby-Dick”, and another from “The Price of Salt”. They put the girl in a foster home, where she continues to express her grief and lamentations through everyone else’s words.”
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“In the tangle of branches, baby birds – the gray and pink of half cooked shrimp and with bones like dried spaghetti – scream for their mothers.”
— 6 hours, 10 min ago
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“I am up for a long time listening to his breathing, wondering if perhaps men have ribbons that do not look like ribbons. Maybe we marked in some way, even if it’s impossible to see.”
— Mar 21, 2026 07:56AM
Tara
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“As a grown woman, I would have said to my father that there are true things in this world observed only by a single set of eyes. As a girl, I consented to his account of the story, and laughed when he scooped me from the chair to kiss me and send me on my way.”
— Mar 21, 2026 07:44AM
Tara
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“gos should have made girls lethal
when he made monsters of men.”
- Elisabeth Hewer
— Mar 21, 2026 07:40AM
when he made monsters of men.”
- Elisabeth Hewer
Tara
is starting
“My body is a haunted
house that I am lost in.
There are no doors but there are knives
and a hundred windows.”
- Jacqui Germain
— Mar 21, 2026 07:39AM
house that I am lost in.
There are no doors but there are knives
and a hundred windows.”
- Jacqui Germain
