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“Here’s an interesting moment in any friendship. That time when one person has revealed something essential about themselves and the other must decide if they can accept it.” – Lone Women by Victor Lavalle

CBR15BINGO: (Strange Worlds square: Lavalle specializes in infusing strange worlds into the real world.) I read Lavalle’s The Changeling a handful of years ago when it first came out. Like that novel, Lone Women is a story about something very … Continue reading

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“…perhaps, vehicle for every kind of fear, she contained enough for all.” – The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Here is where I admit to dismissing Shirley Jackson as a required reading situation in middle school English. I have hazy memories of reading “The Lottery” and thinking it was super creepy but not much more than that. I know, … Continue reading

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