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the fortunate position of being able to go back to my comfortable home and chill with my family while so many beings can't escape the horrible situations they're in
You get to go home — EA ForumI’m sorry. I’ve forgotten the rest of the story.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineHe asks me about the ribbon, point-blank. I tell him that we are all different, and sometimes you should not ask questions. I assure him that he’ll understand when he is grown.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineThat may not be the version of the story you’re familiar with. But I assure you, it’s the one you need to know.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazine– You think you want to know, I say, but you do not.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineThe next day, our son touches my throat and asks about my ribbon.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineI love you, I love you, I love you.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineShe was not wrong, but it didn’t matter any more.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineThey found her dead on the grave, the blade pinning the sturdy wool of her skirt to the ground.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineI have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazinethere is no experience you have had that you are not the absolute centre of. The world as you experience it is there in front of YOU or behind YOU, to the left or right of YOU, on YOUR TV or YOUR monitor. And so on. Other people’s thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real.
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) - Farnam StreetAll these apps and platforms serve us. AI chatbots are “all about you and your mental health journey”! Our online therapist is here to serve our every need, whenever we have one, any time of day. We are the divine; we are the deity. We have become the omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent beings in our lives. There’s a reason, I think, that one of the most popular therapeutic phrases at the moment is is this serving me?
Our New Religion Isn't Enough - by Freya India - GIRLSFor these questions and others, and their lack of resolution, I am sorry.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineHe is not a bad man, and that, I realize suddenly, is the root of my hurt. He is not a bad man at all.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineResolve runs out of me.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineHe looks confused and hurt, like my son the day I shook the can of pennies.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineI know that I made the right choice.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineHe stops smelling like a child – milky sweetness replaced with something sharp and burning, like a hair sizzling on the stove.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineBut I assure you, it’s the one you need to know.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineI do not want to tell my husband about her
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineI pay for her coffee.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineSomething is lost between us, and I never find it again.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazine– I am not hiding it. It is not yours.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazine– I have given you everything you have ever asked for, I say. Am I not allowed this one thing?
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazine– The ribbon is not a secret, it’s just mine.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineThe daughter stumbles from hotel to hotel, confused and grieving, though for whom she cannot say.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineThe girl gets out of the taxi to return to the hotel on foot.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazinemy husband patiently rolls it to him in the grass,
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineMy son touches my ribbon, but never in a way that makes me afraid. He thinks of it as a part of me, and he treats it no differently than he would an ear or finger.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineHe is so beautiful I have to remind myself to breathe.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineThey are each borne from the clouds separately, but once they have come together, there is no way to tell them apart.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazinethey cut her to retrieve him
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazinethis is the last time that we are going to be just you and me.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazine– No, please, I say. I don’t want that, please.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineI am willing to provide them and more.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazineshe did not mind because they were hers and only hers.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazine– There is no saying, now, I tell him finally.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineWhen I select my wedding gown, I am reminded of the story of the young woman who wished to go to a dance with her lover, but could not afford a dress. She purchased a lovely white frock from a secondhand shop, and then later fell ill and passed from this earth. The coroner who performed her autopsy discovered she had died from exposure to embalming fluid. It turned out that an unscrupulous undertaker’s assistant had stolen the dress from the corpse of a bride. The moral of that story, I think, is that being poor will kill you. Or perhaps the moral is that brides never fare well in stories, and…
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineAs it turns out, being right was the third, and worst, mistake.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineIt’s just my ribbon.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazine– You shouldn’t touch it, I say. You can’t touch it.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazine– There is nothing to tell. It’s my ribbon.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazinethere are true things in this world only observed by a single set of eyes.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazineeven though after I share this I have nightmares for a month.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta MagazineAnd now, I will know all of them.
The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta Magazine