Memoir
… past. I have always been a writer, but I’ve never been a competent diarist; until that summer, I had measured out my … place by the door. This was 2004, the year my best friend died, and I stopped taking pictures of the world because it … linear narrative. Photographs offered characters, plot points; the album shaped these into story. But if the album …
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… in January. These surgeries were to fix toes mangled by the combination of a tall body, loose joints, and a girlhood … “Cursed, cursed, cursed—cursed by the God YHW. You will die cursed. Cursed you will surely die. Cursed by … to each other. Or is that too much to hope for? April 26 Today, I drove Erin back to Murfreesboro for the first …
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… the house to give them a saucer of milk, was anathema. “Oh, come on,” my mother had said, turning to face me and wagging … he was a titan of industry who made a fortune from selling diesel engines in World War II. Clock House, in fact, was … This lavish gesture was typical of my grandfather. It was also a foreshadowing of what lay ahead. The car outside from …
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… Begin Cutting Education By Knife Carollynn Tice /Dreamstime.com “[T]here exists an allegiance between the dead and … hundred pounds of dissected cadaver waste—about five bodies’ worth. Everywhere in the bleached walls of the … the transverse plane. The other four extended outward to points equidistant from her spine. Next, we pulled back …
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… Livorno and Bastia. As we reached the dock we saw our ferry coming in from Bastia. She was a proper ship of several … place of red, eroded cliffs and gorges where there was also, as almost everywhere in Corsica, a profusion of herbs … one site in Germany where the remains of many people who died violent deaths seem to prove that war was already known …
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… and a rejection of anyone who didn’t share the same ideals. Saudi Arabia’s Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of … a whore, an outcast, licentious, immoral, rebellious, disobedient, Westernized, a traitor and double agent to boot. …