Holly Dickins

Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kozyrev linked the twisting force of torsion (i.e., time) not both to entropy and negentropy, and argued that the nonlocal nature of time supports balance by supraluminally counterbalancing entropy with order throughout the universe.

I wished I could watch her be friends with other women. If I knew how she normally went about it, it would be easier to know if we were different.

We laughed a lot in the cinema, especially at the films about sad straight boys who needed fixing. Women in movies taught men how to feel things. They took men who felt nothing and made them feel

We might even be addicted to tension because it reminds us we are alive. stasis feels like death.

For her, I'd burn a candle worth four hours' pay to me, i.e. one-sixth of a day, thinking: the other five-sixths are there, too, if you want them. It would glow purple against her face and her cheekbones would ridge like sand ripples. She'd say I had good taste, and I'd say: no, you. We'd both be right because no one with discernment could spend