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They say that depression is congealed anger. I think of it as a petrified troll. A creature of darkness and the incomplete – irate, dangerous – transformed by daylight into something unmoving and lifeless. *
“was standing around with some other parents, waiting for the kids to be released from school. I miss maps, one of them said. You know, the kind you kept in the glove compartment and had to unfold, and when you were done with them you could never quite figure out how to refold them. We all remembered those. Then everyone started sharing nostalgic artifacts from childhood. I miss thinking Columbus discovered America, someone said. I miss using my mom’s makeup mirror to pretend I was walking on the ceiling. I miss getting lost.”
― The Best American Short Stories 2022
― The Best American Short Stories 2022
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