A Study for a Memoir
This is the beginning of the book that I should have written. It starts with a box, in a closet, in a room. Notebooks with tortured spines and severed pages tell the stories, in too many words, of days when I choked on syllables and synonyms. This is what mattered to me. Once. Sometimes, I think until it hurts and write until I cry and edit until what I meant to say is rubbed away eraser bits exhaled off the page.
This is a search and rescue operation not creation but salvation. From a box, in a closet, in a room, these are unfurled pages. This is the introduction to the book I should have written and the one I wrote instead.
I. Nyctophobia
II. The History House Mysteries
III. Blood Sisters
IV. This Atmosphere is Not Conducive to Life.
V. Broken
VI. A Nocterna in Pathetique
VII. Quittance
VIII. Girls Like Her
This is the beginning of the book that I should have written. It starts with a box, in a closet, in a room. Notebooks with tortured spines and severed pages tell the stories, in too many words, of days when I choked on syllables and synonyms. This is what mattered to me. Once. Sometimes, I think until it hurts and write until I cry and edit until what I meant to say is rubbed away eraser bits exhaled off the page.
This is a search and rescue operation not creation but salvation. From a box, in a closet, in a room, these are unfurled pages. This is the introduction to the book I should have written and the one I wrote instead.
I. Nyctophobia
II. The History House Mysteries
III. Blood Sisters
IV. This Atmosphere is Not Conducive to Life.
V. Broken
VI. A Nocterna in Pathetique
VII. Quittance
VIII. Girls Like Her
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me too. he likes his 'big scary cat' chew toy, apparently. i had to send him something out of sympathy for his being periodically rectally expelled. or something.
yes. yes i know.