meli. ’s Reviews > In This Light: New and Selected Stories > Status Update
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The living, the left behind, the bereft think of all the days unlived—tomorrow and tomorrow. But you thought only of today, each holy moment. Blesséd was this God who belonged to no one, who was the spark in all things, in everyone, everywhere. Blesséd was this life, not held, not in you alone, not contained in one body: this life, this God, moving here as breath, as light, as love between you.
— May 18, 2018 05:09PM
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Last summer, Sufi flung herself fifty feet into the air at twilight. Flying heart, vesper sparrow, she sang as if one ecstatic cry could save the world.
— Apr 09, 2018 03:17AM
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Listen, it won't be that long—unknown and unforgiven as I am, I want to live in my body somehow.
— Apr 05, 2018 02:04AM
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He's the rose-splattered bedspread washed and dried. He's the faint outline only she can find.
— Apr 03, 2018 05:51PM
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"Next to my skin, the ivory silk of the camisole was soft and forbidden, everything in me my father couldn't control."
— Apr 02, 2018 11:24PM
