#*fragments

[eliamatrell]

— WENDELL BERRY, “A Meeting.”

[letterful]

It was fun, some of the time, while it lasted. You could say that, I suppose, about most years, about most lives.

— WENDY COPE, from “1972.”

[eliamatrell]

— TONI MORRISON, from ‘Beloved’.

[eliamatrell]

— MARGARET ATWOOD, from “A Sad Child”

[letterful]

— MARGARET ATWOOD, from “Shapechangers in Winter.”

[eliamatrell]

— CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE, “A Monstrous Manifesto”

[letterful]

Then she spoke—she said my name—and I, who did not love her, opened my arms.

RICHARD JONES, from “The Loft.”