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July 5 - July 10, 2021
Cups represent emotions. Swords represent the mind. Rods represent passion. Pentacles represent money.
Lily tucks her hair behind her bad ear, something she always does when she’s nervous. It’s like she remembers all of her weaknesses at once and needs to show you them compulsively, the way a dog shows you the soft pink skin on his belly. “I’m
Jenny Lewis.”
“Prince wasn’t a woman,” I say. “Prince wasn’t anything. Prince was just Prince.”
I’m still trying to analyze the dream, but it’s like trying to transfer water from one hand to the other. With each pass, another detail falls away.
The thought was electrifying. Someone could just make you commit murder? How? It was on at one in the morning, so we had a sleepover at my house and watched it. I don’t remember much about it, but there was definitely an interview with a former cult leader who was known for recruiting teenage girls. The interviewer asked him how he had recruited his followers. Simple, he said. He just approached groups of girls at shopping malls, singled one out, and told her that she had beautiful eyes. “If she said thank you or even just laughed, I moved on,” he said. “But if she tried to deflect the
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The room is feeling looser now, like stretched-out chewing gum.
“Loads of people are bi.”
“I guess your gender feels natural to you. I’m jealous,” he replies. Then he pauses. Thinks about it. “Except, actually, no. I don’t think I am. I used to be. But the more I let myself just exist, the more fun it gets. So I try not to question it or label it. I’m trying to just see everything as . . . negotiable.” “Negotiable.” “Yeah. Negotiable.”
The Beginner’s Guide to Spellcraft
Sister Assumpta wasn’t using these boxes to take jewelry into the school. The soft, satin-lined boxes meant for keeping delicate necklaces and bracelets in perfect condition were being used to store delicate memories instead.
It’s like realizing you’ve been playing a video game on easy mode and everyone’s letting you think you’re really good at it.
He’s like a puppy now, all big paws. In a few years, he’s probably going to fill out like Pat did, strong and wide and thick as a brick.
