A roundup of stories from our week together at Catapult.
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Steven Church wrote about how playing basketball transformed him into “a slapping, pushing, elbowing shit-talker”—and how he watches the game now that his playing days are behind him.
“Mazes have exits, and they are about escape. Labyrinths have centers, and they are about monsters”: Ana Maria Guay's haunting meditation on her life with OCD.
If not for online shopping, some of us would never buy any clothes at all:
I am granted a reprieve from nagging concerns of morality by the tactful anonymity of e-commerce, free to see what I want to see, which is a sundress that whispers of midnight garden trysts and fountain plashes, of crumbly cheeses and another bottle of red. The dress is what I want it to be, according to my day’s particular shade of emptiness. I am the sole audience, the sole interpreter, the sole protagonist.
“Although my main characters find themselves in difficult circumstances, they are not passive. They resist, confront, and sometimes arrive at moments of transcendence.”
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