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Month: May 2025

Posted on May 4, 2025May 4, 2025

Crying in bookstores, thinking of borders

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Today, I teared up in a bookstore. Today, I bought a book because the first two paragraphs of its final chapter made me feel like crying. I picked it up and leafed through it to kill time, and because the title, Borderlines, caught my eye. I picked it up with some cynicism, wondering what this …

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Maria Cohut. Writer, researcher, and ghoul extraordinaire. Lover of all things weird and obscure, collector of discarded photographs, occasional dabbler in taxidermy, taphophile. She lives by the unpredictable seaside with a colony of giant African land snails and her many typewriters. Poetry pamphlet "Spatter Pattern" *out now* from back room poetry.
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