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"by your response to danger it is easy to tell how you have lived and what has been done to you..."

Jenny Holzer Living Series

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Sandra Cisneros, ‘Last Poem for Richard’, as quoted in Junot Diaz’s This Is How You Lose Her

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Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

Richard Siken Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out (via ascandalsouthofnowhere)

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paisley rekdal / gail hareven / tracey emin / hélène cixous / sarah kans / karese burrows / richard siken / leila chatti

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favorite fics: the rosary, fluorescentgrey

The Rosary by fluorescentgrey

One of the best things I’ve ever read, fanfiction or otherwise -- like a lot of this author’s works. Remus and Sirius are detectives in WW2 Britain, investigating the murder of a woman found stuffed in a wych elm tree (which apparently really happened in 1943 and has never been solved).

The writing is obviously beautiful. I also really enjoy the way the author describes the war (using real historical events again, like the Vinkt massacre) and the way it completely devastates the human psyche. The central mystery unwraps in such a satisfying and depressingly realistic way.

Word count: 31,394

Genre: au, mystery/noir

Favorite passages: werewolves they meet, sex scenes, the end (devastating),

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