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GOOD BONES

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
es…

You say you want to forgive. Have you?”

Someone will ask that, I’m sure, because I ask myself all the time. How do I answer?

—I could say it’s difficult to forgive someone who hasn’t expressed remorse. I could counter with questions: Why do I need to forgive someone who doesn’t seem to be sor…

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

—Lidia Yuknavitch