Rebecca’s Reviews > In the Dream House > Status Update

“one day she asks, who knows about us? it becomes a refrain. its strange - in some past generation this could have meant so many things. who knows we’re lovers? who knows we’re queer? but when she asks, the unspoken reason is awful, deflated of nobility or romance: who knows that i yell at you like this?”

“a reminder, perhaps, that abusers do not need to be, and rarely are, crackling maniacs. they just want something, and not care how they get it.”

“she is made vulnerable by her circumstance, her isolation. her only ally is her abuser, witch is to say she has no ally at all. and so she has to struggle against an unchangeable landscape that has been hammered into existence by nothing less than time itself”

“you cried in front of many people. you missed readings, parties, the supermoon. you tried to tell your story to people who didnt know how to listen. you made a fool of yourself, in more ways than one.

i thought you died, but wrinting this, im not sure you did.”

damm this is so hard