
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Where are they now? Dropping to their knees in the streets. In fields. In kitchens. Stopping halfway through a kiss or a fight. Imagine getting it all back. Your daughter’s wedding. The first time you held your son. Bluebells. An ache builds in my throat that has nothing to do with the smoke.
Bridget Collins • The Binding: The most captivating novel of 2019
She came up here for college, but her daddy got cancer, and the farm got sold, and ends stopped meeting, and she had to drop out.
Gillian Flynn • The Grownup
Rayne Fisher-Quann • against narrative
“No, really, I’m done.” They are reminding me of the years when they were small and it was just me in the house beneath all that snow and Joe was in the barn trying to fix a tractor he didn’t know how to fix, and I felt like the children would eat me. Nell was eating me, still at my breast, and the other two rushed to crawl in my lap whenever I sat
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