When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.
The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.
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When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.
The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.
The author of Mother of God discusses the limitations of realism, Frank Bidart, and the anguished duality of shame.
Standing in the wreckage of these spaces unlocks a sensation people often crave, but can’t name.
It’s an imagined past, a pastoral imaginary, an alternate timeline in the multiverse.
I have begun to obsess about this one kiss. A kiss. What the hell difference would a kiss make?
The author of Reverse Cowgirl on autofiction, an uneasy relation to place, and languages of sexuality.
The author of In the Dream House on gaslighting, the lack of institutional capacity for change, and formal experimentation.
The author of Cherry Beach on exploring different ways of being, becoming comfortable with open-endedness, and putting yourself out there.
I see now that I’m synecdochic for every institution she’s felt pinched by, every older person she’s felt used by. She wants to summon what little power she has left and ruin.