Sep 14, 2022
In a World of Impermanence, I’ll Always Have Paris
I have never felt further from a former version of myself as I do now, here, today.
Tabitha Blankenbiller is the author of the debut essay collection Eats of Eden: A Foodoir, released from Alternating Current Press in March 2018. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Catapult, Electric Lit, The Rumpus, Narratively, Hobart, Barrelhouse, Bustle, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and a number of other journals. She graduated from the Pacific University MFA program and lives outside of Portland, Oregon.
I have never felt further from a former version of myself as I do now, here, today.
The back was nothing but a web of elastic straps, and the front wasn’t low-cut as much as it was nonexistent.
This was the pact I made with my now and future self: to become the most successful writer that it was possible to be.
“The undefined, complicated, unresolved trauma makes us messy—how do we tell our story without an ending?”
