Familiarity bleeds into strangeness, certainty becomes impossible. Only the violence is vivid enough to stick.
the vegetarian – han kang
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Familiarity bleeds into strangeness, certainty becomes impossible. Only the violence is vivid enough to stick.
the vegetarian – han kang

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the castle of otranto – horace walpole
[TEXT: “Angels of grace protect me!” cried Frederic, recoiling. “Deserve their protection!” said the spectre. Frederic, falling on his knees, adjured the phantom to take pity on him.]
monstrilio – gerardo sámano córdova
[TEXT: Our son died before the dogwood pushed out its first flower, a bloom so simple with four white petals and a burst of yellow-green in the center—a beginner’s flower. I believed that flower was my son reincarnated. One believes the stupidest things in grief. I spoke to the flower and called it my son. And then I laughed because how ridiculous—how cruel, really—it would have been if my son was reincarnated as something so ephemeral, frail, and beautiful. I killed that first bloom with one swoop of my hand. Dead again, my son could become something else: the shell of a tortoise, strong and ancient, or a hideous fanged creature deep in the sea where he’d see wonders even he could’ve never imagined.]
the final strife – saara el-arifi
[TEXT: Love may give you strength, but retribution gives you purpose.]
model home – rivers solomon
[TEXT: Maybe that’s what’s wrong with me. I can’t really live because I don’t let things die. Everything inside of me,]

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We didn’t so much exist as much as we haunted, and with no one else to haunt, we haunted each other.
monstrilio – gerardo sámano córdova
downward to the earth – robert silverberg
[TEXT: He felt a stab of nostalgia so powerful that he winced.]
She’s far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom everything is fine. For her, normality—however messy—is far more comprehensible.
convenience store woman – sayaka murata