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“i felt a smothered hunger beating out from the unseen places inside my body. i felt corseted in skin. i wanted to turn myself violently inside out.”

“i wanted my room to be gone, the whole apartment gone, all the walls closing in on the space between until there was no space between. i wanted to eliminate all the space within which something worse could happen. that blank material was a threat. it could become anything.”

“all i could do was slip my shoes off silently and creep back over to my bed, where i’d lie facedown on the mattress and look out across the street, thinking about how much easier it would be to have fewer things to think about, or no things at all.”