Mothers Don’t by Katixa Agirre
If you do not feel or even believe in love, then how and why would you bring others into the nightmare that is existence?
If you do not feel or even believe in love, then how and why would you bring others into the nightmare that is existence?
uninspiring 1940s travel writing
Richard Wright in Franco’s Spain and other fragments
short post that took a month to not write
ideologically, i’d love to tear this apart, but i cannot…
why I owned but didn’t read this book for five years (anger, depression)
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Experimental late 20th century short fiction.
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