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2 Case Studies on Women & Work
Our first subject grows up in a trad family. She sees certain aspects of the situation—her mother’s eternal workload, her mother’s dependence on the…
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one hypothetical
fair warning, there's a suicide in this
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vampire women
she’s crying and he’s soothing her, telling her to take her time, tucking her in, not getting in with her, pulling the weighted blanket over her, it…
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at the cat's house
the apartment was nicer than hers, and no roommates. a low yellow bed & a minimalist linen couch. an orchid in the kitchen window. it didn’t smell like…
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geneology
her father's first wife was a good woman from a good family.
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first love
day 40/40, can you believe it
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dreams about her
we are caring for an old man who despite our solicitude shrinks into a monstrous wrinkled baby and then winks out of existence. we are wandering through…
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a curse word
an eldest daughter who has never cursed in front of her mother, overhears her youngest sister and mother talking in the next room: “you’re right, he’s…
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a body image story
eating/body stuff in here
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a useful face
he didn't know about his face. his parents, in order to protect him from something, had sent him to an all-boys school, where his nerdiness, his…
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the doctor hunter
it could never work…..in the repressive 1950s…..i’m a medical student who intends to specialize in surgery but is increasingly seduced by…
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a date
at a coffeeshop where the vibes are kind of inhospitable—very uncomfortable chairs.
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