and I sat there blinking.
It's almost like the pole was a part of their family and he was like, "why would you even ask that?"
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- Feb 2025
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www.unm.edu www.unm.eduSticks1
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pankmagazine.com pankmagazine.com
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each shock of me making bone and blood of her soft body, carving chambers into her two-dimensional valentine heart
such emotion provoking words used here and throughout the passage
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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"This place safe," the woman says, in a voice that is so soft it sounds like a whisper. "Them not going to small-small shop, only big-big shop and market."
The way she speaks shows how she's definitely not from there - presumably assumed from description - but it shows a lot about her character
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library.achievingthedream.org library.achievingthedream.org
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Wondering over and over again what the stranger would say to her, and what he would think when she told him how to find his way straight to the heron’s nest
All of this, just to get the satisfaction of telling him, when before hand she wouldn't speak unless spoken to?
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He was
Switching point of views here it seems
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unquestioned voice would have terrified her
She is so well known in her own silence, I used to be the same way. Sometimes speaking in a empty room alone to see if I still could. I wonder if this is part of the reason nature enjoys her so much
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“I am making a collection of birds myself. I have been at it ever since I was a boy.
Makes me think he is either just really big on hunting, is a scientist - evolution, or is just genuinely interested in birds
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it was her greatest pleasure to hide herself away among th high huckleberry bushes, and though she wore a loud bell she had made the discovery that if one stood perfectly still it would not ring
It's interesting to think of this point of view coming from a cow, because before this, the way it was all described I would have thought it had been a person in awe with the experience - assuming it is one
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- Jan 2025
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library.achievingthedream.org library.achievingthedream.org
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Most writers are somewhere between these two extreme types of drafters, and that’s the best place to be.
Right before this I was just thinking how I'm not really either one or the other and I was kind of in the middle. So I'm glad to know that it's actually a good spot and not bad to be more on one side rather than the other
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