Christian Molenaar

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  • Insidious and Cruel

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    The coming of spring is insidious and cruel. The mist pervades my throat as it melted the crystal my voice was. I am weak, and I much preferred the hard agreement of our truce of gauntlets. Read more

  • Summer Stars

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    Maybe it was secretly a blessing that night when you couldn’t see the Big Dipper. Read more

  • Mambo No. 5

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    The match could not have been more perfect: our two closest friends in the world — my best friend of fifteen years, your former college roommate, both simultaneously single at last. After half a decade of half-secret crushes, missed connections and ill-timed rendezvous, the timing was finally right. And a month later it was over. Read more

Thought:

“The dense, dark night was cut down the middle, split into two black blocks of sleep. Where was she? Between the two pieces, looking at them (the one she had already slept and the one she had yet to sleep), isolated in the timeless and the spaceless, in an empty gap. This stretch would be subtracted from her years of life.”

Clarice Lispector | Near to the Wild Heart

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