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As she smiled her delight at hearing such agreement with her own thoughts, I handed her the drawing.
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Talents: winner of the Nebula Award (Parable 2)
me, all I can manage is a memory of the first time me and Magda talked. Back at Rutgers. We were waiting for an E bus together on George Street and she was wearing purple. All sorts of purple. And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end. I cry, and when they pull me up the Vice-President says, i
... See moreJunot Díaz • This Is How You Lose Her
If I were to approach Miss Zwida, I would have to express some appreciation of her drawings—which are of highly refined quality, for that matter, as far as I have been able to see—and therefore, at least at first, I would have to pretend to agree with an aesthetic and moral ideal that I reject, or else declare my feelings at the very start, with th
... See moreItalo Calvino • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Every so often the passing 7 train dismantles her.
Marie-Helene Bertino • Beautyland: A Novel
Was telling the dust-watcher how C. Nunn Jr. passed up multitudes of come-hitherish cheerleaders and oriental princesses to return to Minogue and enter into serious commitment with his childhood sweetheart, the illegally buxom and tall Glory Joy duBoise, closest thing to femininity and pulchritude that to date exists in Minogue Oklahoma, eyes like
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Girl With Curious Hair
Whiplash girlchild in the dark
Nathan Hill • The Nix
She preferred becoming accustomed to any number of ugly faces to remaining in her cage.