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A fly in milk, contaminating everything.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
(Interested in being a better writer? Go buy yourself a copy of The Collected Stories by Grace Paley.)
Ann Patchett • This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
She had a proprietary way of admiring other people’s possessions, as if all good taste were in some measure a tribute to herself.
Shirley Hazzard, Brigitta Olubas, • Collected Stories
A lonely girl living in a world surrounded only by ghosts. Nothing reminded her of her own life more.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
She wasn’t in Mallard anymore, but somehow, the town wouldn’t leave her.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
might the phrase get stuck in some pristine place, seep in like a slow-drip poison?
Edan Lepucki • Time's Mouth
She felt too young to be washed up, but then again, she had ridden an improbable string of luck. Her whole life, in fact, had been a gift of good fortune—she had been given whiteness. Blonde hair, a pretty face, a nice figure, a rich father. She’d sobbed out of speeding tickets, flirted her way to endless second chances. Her whole life, a bounty of
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