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‘I pushed him away, wiping my mouth & glaring, all the while feeling my anger rise. After he forced his kiss on me, I didn’t want to control myself anymore. I wanted to unleash my rage. Once, I’d wished for nothing more than a kiss from Nathan, but when it finally came, I realized his kisses were not kisses at all—they were manifestations of his deranged need, not for me, but for the other world.’
— May 10, 2023 01:20AM
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“Then she parted her red robe, & I saw her pale & sickly flesh beneath. Running from her navel to her breastbone was a deep cut, a sort of incision. She pressed her fingers into the cut & slowly pulled back her skin, stretching it, opening herself up. And there within her body lay another place.” ….This is so weird.
— May 12, 2023 01:08AM
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‘This idol was the antidote to the storybook fables of the religions of Man, the goddess of nothingness. She had no story & did not speak. She was a never-ending hush, & I felt that silence spooling out within myself as well.’
— May 12, 2023 12:57AM
Sarah Mac
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‘I wanted to feel the Empyrean consume me, to erase my name and my sex, erase my very identity and leave me a magnificent and shining absence.’
— May 09, 2023 01:49AM
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‘I could feel the witch’s house surging around me. Its timbers developed something like a voice, & they were calling to me, not with language, but with music. Theirs was a terribly persuasive song. The timbers wanted me to lay Nathan low—to bring him down. A part of me wanted the same. He thought he could take what was not his.’
— May 09, 2023 12:56AM
Sarah Mac
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‘A fallen yellow leaf had attached itself to Nathan’s lapel. He picked the leaf off carefully & turned to look at me, one sharp eyebrow cocked. Despite my fear of study, Nathan’s new interest pleased me. I’d finally drawn his attention. I’d finally become a woman of significance.’
— May 08, 2023 01:00AM
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‘I leaned down & saw that Nathan himself had scrawled over the Bible’s verses there in ink. I recognized his handwriting but not the message. He wrote: In the beginning was not the Word. In the beginning was She, Red Goddess, the Unnamed. Here before the world was made. Here after it is laid to ruin.’
— May 08, 2023 12:41AM
Sarah Mac
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‘Stoke Morrow might once have possessed an architecture of hope—perhaps its builders meant for it to look as though it was attempting an ascent into Heaven. But in later years, as the foundation settled & cracked, the skyward-reaching house reversed its trajectory & began sinking into the mossy earth that surrounded it.’
— May 07, 2023 01:30AM
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—“Gods are animals, Jane. A jackal, a hawk, a common house cat, & like animals, they hunt & sleep & kill, never conscious of their own cruelty.”
—And in that moment, I was taken again by a vision of the white forest from my dream. I had a sense that the creatures that waited for me behind the trees were animal in nature, & Father’s statements made me wonder if somehow they might also be gods.
— May 06, 2023 03:48PM
—And in that moment, I was taken again by a vision of the white forest from my dream. I had a sense that the creatures that waited for me behind the trees were animal in nature, & Father’s statements made me wonder if somehow they might also be gods.
Sarah Mac
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‘It was clear that both of my friends misunderstood me. I wasn’t a witch meant for burning, nor was I precisely the doorway Nathan imagined. I had no lock that could be picked. If anything, I was the landscape behind the door, & even on that day in the ruin, I was still only beginning to comprehend my own flora & fauna.’
— May 05, 2023 12:40AM
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So, I’ve had this untried for more than a decade. 😶 Who says I’ve got too many books? NOBODY! NOBODY SAYS THAT! ……..Because I’m reading & can’t hear you. Bwahaha. Take that, reality.
— May 04, 2023 11:48PM
