Demonology and such
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Good evening (?!?!) and happy Sunday!
It wasn’t my intention to get this to you so late, but I hope we can all benefit from some bedtime reading. I say “we,” because I read these things into the ground after I schedule them. I have to read them from the perspective my mom, my boyfriend, my boyfriend’s mom, my third-grade teacher, my great grandparents (so so sorry about this one) and every friend I’ve ever had before I can move on with my day.
If you haven’t done the Sunday puzzle today, I couldn’t recommend it enough. It has a really fun theme that made me laugh once I made sense of it. It also made me realize, once again, that I don’t think I could ever write a crossword, but at least I can write a Crossword Club.
Demonology and such
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What if I asked them all to dinner?
The one I made up after seeing my first horror movie would be my same age now–
I don’t even think we’d recognize each other.
I gave her a home in the corner of my room on Ingram Mill, and she dissolved when I moved out. She’d feel out of place at a soiree.
The one I made up when I read the book of Jude would sulk in the shadowed hallway, bitter about the crab dip and the pinks in the sunset.
He has an earring and scarred eyebrows, a pale face and chains around his wrists. He might worry he’d underdressed for the occasion.
The one I made up when I’d hear the screech of the air kicking on at the house on Mills–he’d be a no-show, for certain.
He likes his quaint country life; he wouldn’t care for the music.
The one I made up at the turqouise motel in Monterey would be the life of the party.
She has wild white hair and a laugh like a gun range. She’d take to the malbec and the meatball hors d’oeuvres, which would, of course, fall right to the floor.
She’s drunk on living forever, satiated by California souls. The Ingram Mill haunt would find her comforting, and so would I.
What I read and loved this week
‘At Night I Dream of Mariupol’: Nine Accounts of Surviving a Russian Siege, collected by journalists in Ukraine
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Love, Kate
“Demonology and such” is great. So creative and clever!