[the-oddest-inkling]

Nobody understands the bond between a girl and the mediocre book she read when she was 13 years old.

[8-bitstories-deactivated2020062]

[mayonezli]

[warmfigure]

i love my kitchen

[cowboycuck-deactivated20230831]

[cybervoidd]

[firstfullmoon]

I made it through April, May, June; it seemed I had outsmarted grief but pulled the hanged man card repeatedly—the self-same sorrow said a different way.

— Maya C. Popa, from “Signal”

[sunsbleeding]

[flowerytale]

Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin

[sunsbleeding]

[joelpersels]

[typewriter-worries]

the inherent pain of wanting to start again but also the inherent joy of getting to start again

[springwagashi]

[sunsbleeding]

[shisasan]

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own [originally published 1929]

[cybervoidd]

[julykings]

from In the House With No Doors by Sarah Kay