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I’m eating lard, I’m drinking vodka, I’m being really pretentious, talking about how Madame Bovary isn’t my favorite Flaubert novel, and then all of the sudden I explode! – Gary Shteyngart at The Paris Review
What often drives us to compassion or to live in a compassionate way—to advocate and agitate for things—is a desire to see a more equitable world. This is a wonderful thing and what makes us human is this: even though we know we may never get there we choose to keep living as though we can. – Chris Abani at Utne.
(O)ne thing no one shits about and everyone wants, freedom, that is, to burn, like in that other Eden, to drown, in a pool of septic eyesell, to stagger, like our Savior, through the walk of the innocent, or at least the not proven to be. – Vanessa Place at Everyday Genius
The electric charges sounded from the depths of her womb. She knew her eggs were black, her blood treacle dark and sticky. It matted pubic hairs and forged a metallic stink. Clump of womb. Deadly uterus. Tears. – Sara Crowley at PANK
For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss–a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil. – Molly Ringle, winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.