“People are observing when they first get somewhere,” Sam said. “Or when they’re about to leave.” 

Grievance 10 is also not able to be analyzed. It seems you have submitted a recollection of a dream in which you and Susan are adults, old, with sagging breasts, inside a dressing room.

Inevitably the real self does come out. Maybe we put parts of ourselves that we actually don’t manifest in reality into fiction—it’s such an unconscious process.

Steinke artfully details how we lose our vitality, our stamina and our abilities, bit by bit, organ by joint. After the book’s tour through disease and misfortune, I’d come to feel lucky for my health.

I have grown out of the sock drawer. a vagrant unfit holed structure that still somehow keeps you warm.

“I’m just a random white gal raised upper-middle class. But to think that I am disconnected only allows for the continuation of a system that benefits from my ignorance.”