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Curiosity

*spoilers

“Our bunker and the first bunker of dead women were not marked, but many others were—not all, because I didn't carry on writing the signature on the ground once I was alone. I'd given up believing that any living beings would come.”

Bruh this is dreadful to read

I love the surrealism, it reminds me of the trial. I like the perspective a young girl who knows nothing of society or men, the naïveté that comes with that. Once they make it outside, I felt nothing but dread for what waited, and even when the young girl went back in I felt myself shiver at the thought. The story places us among the older women, for there is no existence where a woman knows life without men.

I was absorbed as soon as I started reading, I’m excited to continue