"I never know how to explain this properly to men but that, right there, is the essential weaponry of the whole beauty calculus: how quickly “I think” becomes “The world knows."

The Rumpus Saturday Essay: Me Be Pretty One Day - The Rumpus.net

A thing I wrote for the Rumpus today that no one will read because it is Memorial Day weekend!

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I feel like I stalk Michelle Dean because I reblog her all the time. 

I’m trying to work through some similar ideas in a flash fiction piece I’m working on.  And in my own life I guess.

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