The Monosyllabic Girl
Written in 1998, this was an attempt to capture the curious tension and drama of hanging out with your friends when you’re young and unsettled. There was always a strange desire on my part for something truly awful to happen just to break that tension. Some terrible event that would shock us all into movement, to make decisions and admit dark truths. It…
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