At the urging of three separate friends, I started reading this INDEED VERY PAINFULLY BEAUTIFUL book, about the coming of age of a mysterious girl who lives in the Marsh on the North Carolina coast. …
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Bekah’s Book Club
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WHY TO HAVE KIDS
I mean I imagine life becomes richer / deeper / fuller and you grow in patience and selflessness but then also mostly you get to eat their fruit snacks. Weird that I already can’t wait …
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nerd
I am beginning a steady hearting of the Thing that is the Graphic Novel. This week, I steadily heart Fun Home, a sort of bleak but really compelling memoir penned by one booky lesbian. Also, …
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i wrote a monologue
If you google image ‘Sexy Robot Man,’ that is what you get. PS. FYI. So, I have been ‘comissioned’ if you will to write a monologue for an upcoming festival of halloween plays, spoken …
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Her heart moved with the Day
In the morning, it was optimistic, available, and in need of Eight Breakfasts. In the afternoon: slightly weary, busy, bored of walks to the bank. At night: it filled with blood and grew darker …
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first dates forever
I want to die and come back to life. Why? So I can meet you again for the first time.
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manback surgery
Before we ever met, there was something happening in your back situation that was Not Good. Not Good things were done to you, as you slept, to fix the Not Good thing. The room went …
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jewelry
Jewelry They wandering together through the outdoor flea market, stopping to touch things periodically. The dragon statues slept on weed-wackers and the action figures melted into each other. The unicorn tablecloths shared holes with that …
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fruit.
fruit fiction They had been together for 93 years. The immobility of their age compelled them to spend much time sitting on the porch, while she admired the age spots on her long legs, and …
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snails without homes
I call this icky, gratutious nighttime fuction. What? fiction. So: She had spent the majority of her life patiently waiting for someone to fall in love with her. She may have looked something like this: …