Letter from the Same Room | River Teeth
She walks to class because she lives a few blocks from our classroom building in a beautiful house with her husband and her daughter, and each time I pass it on campus, I feel, like a pulse through the air, the idea of her there. Years later, when she no longer lives there, and I am teaching there, I feel the lack of it.
Annie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning News
It didn’t suit us, the apartment. Its windows are floor-to-ceiling, and the walls paper-thin. Too much of the outside world got in, putting us on edge.
Claire-Louise Bennett • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
We grew up on the third floor of a little apartment building near the ocean. Just two rooms, one more cramped than the other, no wall or anything between them. Izakaya on the ground floor.