You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
I feign knowledge of writing: that I know something about it, that I should have learned something after all these years, that I might know something tomorrow. I read too much and write too little, or write too much and live too little. I have no classical education, no literary degree. I__ not specialized, Hugoed or geniusized; should I be writing at all? In this whole vast world, I__ a female peon sitting here at night wondering what it is I want to say. I aim for fluidity. But no, nix that line, that thought, this life. That__ the crux of it, isn__ it? This life: it__ out of reach. I__ not sure what I__ saying anymore.
On Being a Rat and Other Observations
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I feign knowledge of writing: that I know something about it, that I should have learned something after all these years, that I might know something tomorrow. I read too much and write too little, or write too much and live too little. I have no classical education, no literary degree. I__ not specialized, Hugoed or geniusized; should I be writing at all? In this whole vast world, I__ a female peon sitting here at night wondering what it is I want to say. I aim for fluidity. But no, nix that line, that thought, this life. That__ the crux of it, isn__ it? This life: it__ out of reach. I__ not sure what I__ saying anymore.
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