2021-11-22 19:02
On the platform of a train station, late morning, early June: two women embracing after a separation of several months. Behind them, a tall fair-haired man alighting from the train carrying… Read More
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2021-11-10 04:07
Who even gets married? said Bobbi. It's sinister. Who wants state apparatuses sustaining their relationship?I don't know. What is ours sustained by?That's it! That's exactly what I mean. Not… Read More
2021-11-05 22:33
We always realize things afterwards. Loneliness, for example. It's not when we think we're alone, or when we feel abandoned. That's something different. Loneliness is invisible, we go throug… Read More
2021-10-25 10:59
In person, they baffled me even more. People without hope require direction, according to Dyson. But this wasn't what hopelessness looked like. I had seen hopelessness before, in messages fr… Read More
2021-10-19 03:52
Anyone who takes gentle care of a cow is someone I trust. It's a more telling characteristic of a person than taking Communion. Certainly more telling than good teeth.I wanted to like this b… Read More
2021-10-17 11:21
"Why is this your life? Why are you not a truck driver in Norway? Why?"I have recovered from the sickness. I continue to feel tired, but it is a familiar languishing, not the fatigue of phys… Read More
2021-10-06 02:44
Though provincial by birth, we all considered ourselves the most cultured teenagers in our town, the ones refined enough to be embarrassed by our provincialism and desperate for more civiliz… Read More
2021-10-03 17:41
"Sad sells." This might sound sadistic but it's true; people want to see their sadness reflected back at them because it makes them feel connected to something and connection is the best sal… Read More
2021-10-01 15:01
One day, the past calls you up on the phone and you drop everything and go to Bosnia, because your childhood friend's brother who's been missing since the war shows up. (The plot of Catch th… Read More
2021-09-25 20:45
There's a Jewish joke that says God often rereads the Torah to try to understand what's going on in this world he created.On the 561st day of German lessons, the sickness finally comes. It a… Read More
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