This was a hard story to write. It's about how abuse can sometimes look and feel like love, how sometimes we can only know the difference years later, when the damage is done. Thanks @kenyonreview for giving it a place in the world.
"She returns most often to still-life descriptions because they make Mr. Marsh happiest. They make him nod and mouth the word, 'yes,' and draw happy exclamation points in the margins."
New on Kenyon Review Online, "Hunger" by @elainevan
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@Ryanair rented us a car via Europcar for pick up at 7, got there but office had closed at 6. Called but no response. Rented a new car for triple the price from elsewhere. Emailed @Ryanair immediately and they reply we are a no show and will be charged a cancellation fee! #scam
Received my contributor copy of the @dalhousiereview today! Thank you to the editors for giving my story, “Edges” a home. It’s about postpartum mental illness and how we all lose ourselves a little in those early baby days.
@clhubes I was on that phase of parenting in the height of COVID and it also meant constant—and I mean constant— testing and absences at my in-person job.
@clhubes It’s like starting all over again the way you had to when you were twelve and woke up one day and found you had a whole new body and a whole new life.
"Science and the world at large are really concerned over all the extreme climate events hitting societies across the planet. But what worries us, even more, is the rising signs of dwindling planetary resilience.” https://t.co/uOid4zQyBO
@clairebearian@clhubes I live in Belgium and my daughter *only* gets English from me… and TV. She says all kinds of amazing words I’ve never exposed her to because TV supports her language learning!
@clhubes During pregnancy I tried to visualise all the things I thought would be hard with a baby and then tried to work out the issues I could BEFORE she was born. I had immediately pictures wrestling with a stroller and bought a bugaboo. Best purchase ever.
@biasbe @Universe__Lover Congrats. My kid barely eats, has a range of about 15 foods, gained only one pound in a year, dropping percentiles, and I say the exact same line as you and never cater to her. Your friends who accommodate might have had picky eaters *anyway* even if they hadn’t.
@a_h_reaume Mind you, this was in reply to my own grossly inappropriate BPD diagnosis. I was a depressed teen with PTSD with healthy skepticism of cognitive behaviour therapy (I told my inpatient doctors, “but some people’s experiences ARE just objectively bad” and they didn’t like that)
@a_h_reaume I once had a friend who works in psychiatry tell me BPD is the diagnosis given to women psychiatrists don’t like. If the psychiatrist has a strong reaction to the woman or just doesn’t like her, must be BPD.
@AdrianaBarton I’m on day 8 of covid and what I found out in my reading is that saline nasal rinses help cut virulence especially early on, and if you can get n acetyl cysteine, that also seems to be a non-bullshitty treatment. It’s exceedingly common in Europe but less so in Canada. Good luck!