L.K. Simonds’s Reviews > A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories > Status Update

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“Sighs, the rhythms of our heartbeats, contractions of childbirth, orgasms, all flow into time just as pendulum clocks placed next to one another soon beat in unison. Fireflies in a tree flash on and off as one. The sun comes up and it goes down. The moon waxes and wanes and usually the morning paper hits the porch at six thirty-five.”

I’m so glad to have found Lucia Berlin’s work Her stories are beautifully written and wry as all get out.