This is just. Wow. I can’t even begin to elaborate as to how much this touched me.
Ira Sukrungruang | River Teeth | Fall 2014 | 15 minutes (3,767 words)
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“And once it comes, now that I am wise in its ways, I no longer fight it. I lie down and let it happen. At first every small apprehension is magnified, every anxiety a pounding terror. Then the pain comes, and I concentrate only on that.” –Joan Didion, “In Bed”
It’s happening, says the woman I love to someone in the other room. The someone is most likely her sister, and I hear the shuffle of clogs on the ruined carpet, the swish…
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