scribblers like me

"Scribblers Like Me," May 23, 2022 (#143)

title from The Kingcast Ep. 109, "A Conversation with Stephen King," March 2, 2022

Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (2016)

Do Not Deny Me: Stories by Jean Thompson (2009)

It Will Come To Me by Emily Fox Gordon (2009)

Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction by Benjamin Percy (2016)

The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia by David Stuart MacLean (2009)

Scribblers Like Me

Looks like everything's good to go.

It’s ordinary for us not to talk when we’re alone.

The sagging garage they still meant to convert someday.

You might apply this same strategy to your most interesting

electricity between two exiled neurons, and

most of them are just normal. They’re not that different

and the front entrance was still a bare and dispiriting

business when a person failed at backsliding. Was this

everything, every knife jab and rifle shot and arterial spray

disappeared again, and I realized that I didn't ask

one of the first descriptors of a person in an article?

That helps me read them. It's different for everyone.

A sense of life, of three-dimensionality, the constant,

needed the world to be stable. I needed people to

think they’re being offered coupons and freely ignore

the posters on the walls that exhorted them to seek.

It was always possible to get lost for hours.

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Andy Warhol's The Last Supper (from here)