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Never Quiet Again
“It’s not that we don’t remember what it was like before the sound. If you asked us, we could tell you.”
Jess Zimmerman is the author of Women and Other Monsters and the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature. Her essays and opinion writing have appeared in the Guardian, the New Republic, Slate, Hazlitt, Catapult, and others.
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A Year Without an Ending
Is it strange, in a vortex of absence, to cherish endings? Only if loss and endings are the same.
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What if we thought of emotional trauma the way we do physical: as a wide class of wounds whose healing is unpredictable, whose scars take different forms?
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Your near-life experiences have coalesced in this momentary identity. You are a woman speeding along I-10 with a caged green-cheeked conure chirping by her side.
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The whales would sing because they were alone, but with each other, their song a reminder that loss and exile are linked.
Before the Cure
He’d seen himself as something different then: greater than he was, more worthy of acclaim.