"Passingly, I think that this might always have been inevitable, that perhaps she had always known it but had wanted to hold on for me, for as long as she could."
-Our Wives Under the Sea

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"Passingly, I think that this might always have been inevitable, that perhaps she had always known it but had wanted to hold on for me, for as long as she could."
-Our Wives Under the Sea
our wives under the sea by julia armfield
Julia Armfield, from "The Great Awake" [ID in ALT]
well resist you dumb bitch!!
My Husband in Space, an Our Wives Under the Sea comic zine 🌊
anne boyer “the harm will come: it never doesn’t” / julia armfield “to watch a horror movie is to know that something bad is going to happen. to have a body is really the same thing” / hilary mantel “we don’t have to invite pain in, it’s waiting for us: sooner rather than later” / marie howe “you know how we’ve been waiting for the big pain to come? I think it’s here. I think this is it. I think it’s been here all along” / gregory orr “I want to go back to the beginning. we all do. I think: hurt won’t be there. but I’m wrong” / toni morrison “the hurt was always there” / torrey peters “pain that had to be endured, withstood, pain that was the same as being alive, and so without end”
Nothing pairs better with lesbian fiction than a sense of impending doom.
"I see my mother in myself, though less in the sense of inherited features and more in the sense of an intruder poorly hidden behind a curtain."
— Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea.