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“Outside, the hummingbird’s whirring sounds almost like human breath. Its beak jabs into the pool of sugared water at the feeder’s base. What a terrible life, I think now, to have to move so fast just to stay in one place.” (64)
— Jan 10, 2025 05:42AM
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Riley Wolfram
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“I was in the Italian American Lit class at a city college in Brooklyn when I saw, on my phone, a Facebook update from Trevor‘s account, posted by his old man. Trevor had passed away the night before. ‘I’m broken in two,’ the message said. In two, it was the only thought I could keep, sitting in my seat, how losing a person could make more of us, the living, make us two.” (167)
— Jan 21, 2025 04:01AM
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“The cruelest walls are made of glass, Ma. I had the urge to break through the pain and leap out the window…He was only nine, but had already mastered the dialect of damaged American fathers. The boys crowded around me, sensing entertainment. I could smell their fresh-laundered clothing, the lavender and lilac in the softeners.” (24)
THE CRUELEST WALLS ARE MADE OF GLASS. Yeah. Break my heart. Wow.
— Jan 07, 2025 07:44PM
THE CRUELEST WALLS ARE MADE OF GLASS. Yeah. Break my heart. Wow.
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“What do we mean when we say survivor? Maybe a survivor the last one to come home, the final monarch that lands on a branch already weighted with ghosts.” (13)
One chapter in and the pen game is already bonkers.
— Jan 07, 2025 04:01AM
One chapter in and the pen game is already bonkers.
