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Please Don’t Call

in case you want to say anything but can’t call or send it to the intended recipient, you can write it here

huckleberryhal

Mary Oliver in “Dog Songs”

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weltenwellen

Taking Care Callista Buchen

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Joan Didion, writing about the shock that followed after the death of her husband, John.

petaltexturedskies

Sylvia Plath, from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices" in The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath

loveridden1999

Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons // Roald Dahl // Hot Night, Eileen Myles // From June to December, Wendy Cope // Charlotte Eriksson

iphigeniacomplex

anthony fantano acting like an arbiter of culture is so funny because the biggest impact he has had on my life was that one comment on his fetch the bolt cutters review calling him a misogynist

iphigeniacomplex

i would honestly call this lifechanging like i became a more honest writer after reading this because i realized i didn't have to care about men's reviews. she said the word rape and you were scared!!

petaltexturedskies

Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Edward Sackville-West, written c. September 1926, from The letters of Virginia Woolf : Vol. III, 1923-1928

hangsawoman

the lottery, shirley jackson

hangsawoman

happy lottery day!!

a lot of people wanted to know what shirley jackson meant with this story. she told all who asked different meanings; it’s about small town life, the holocaust, antisemitism, the myth of the scapegoat… she told one high school student: “if you can’t figure it out, i’m not going to tell you.”

she approved one message to be published in the the new yorker, written by a young kip orr;