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_Marrrgo_15 января 2023 г.That's the thing about being an adult standing beside your childhood race car bed. Time collapses, and instead of the version of you you've built from scratch, you're all the hackneyed drafts that came before, all at once.
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ElizabethHart10 сентября 2022 г.“You’ve never needed me—”“Of course I don’t!” I’ve worked hard to build a life that’s my own, that no one else could pull a plug on to send me swirling down a cosmic drain.026
valeriyatretyak26 августа 2022 г.It’s not casual dating if you know the other person’s blood type.”“I do not know my dates’ blood types,” I say. “All I need from them is a full credit report, a psych eval, and a blood oath.”018- valeriyatretyak26 августа 2022 г.“I’m going to see this movie five hundred times,” Libby tells me. “Consecutively.”“Wear a diaper,” I advise.“Not necessary,” she says. “I’ll be crying too much. There won’t be any pee in my body.”“I had no idea you had such a . . . comprehensive understanding of science,” I say.“The last time I read it, I cried so hard I pulled a muscle in my back.”“You should consider exercising more.”“Rude.”018
- valeriyatretyak26 августа 2022 г.Mom’s theory was that youthful skin would make a woman more money (true in both acting and waitressing), good underwear would make her more confident (so far, so true), and good books would make her happy (universal truth), and we’ve clearly both packed with this theory in mind.016
- valeriyatretyak26 августа 2022 г.This costs 99 cents. . . . . . . . . . . .I reply, I know—such a bargain! If my professionalism is a gel manicure, then Charlie Lastra is apparently the industrial-grade acetone capable of burning right through it.I search his name on Venmo and send him ninety-nine cents. Another email comes in a second later. He’s sent the dollar back to me, with the note, I’m a grown man, Nora. I can buy my own Bigfoot erotica, thank you very much.015
- valeriyatretyak26 августа 2022 г.I write, What page are you on?Three, he says. And I already need an exorcism.014
- valeriyatretyak26 августа 2022 г.“Here lies Nora Stephens, whose taste was often exceptional and occasionally disturbing.”Don’t judge me based on the Christmas novella, I reply. I haven’t read it.Would never judge you on Bigfoot porn, Charlie says. Would entirely judge you for preferring Once in a Lifetime to The Glory of Small Things.The wine has slipped one Jenga piece too many loose from my brain: I write, IT’S NOT A BAD BOOK!“IT’S NOT A BAD BOOK.” —Nora Stephens, Charlie replies. I think I remember seeing that endorsement on the cover.Читать далее015
- valeriyatretyak26 августа 2022 г.Charlie replies, Says the woman they call the Shark.I scoff. No one calls me that. I don’t think.Says the man they call the Storm Cloud.Do they? he asks.Sometimes, I write. Of course, I would never. I’m far too polite.Of course, he says. That’s what sharks are known for: manners.018
- valeriyatretyak26 августа 2022 г.That was how it all started, wasn’t it? I was late, so he was rude, so I was rude back, so he hated me, so I hated him, and so on and so forth.014