“TUX TONIGHT?” Gus messaged at noon on Saturday.Anxiety crept up every time I thought about being alone in the car with him—a classic **forced proximity** moment I wasn’t prepared for. However, I’d had this night planned since last week, and I wasn’t ready to bow out of our **creative writing deal**. Not when I was […]
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That night on the warm asphalt wasn’t a movie montage. It was a slow burn, hours spent under the neon glow and screeching metal of cheap amusement park rides. We consumed deep-fried carnival food and drank lime-infused beer from sticky cans between visits to each of the seven attractions. There was no dragging through long
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The Mouth THE WORST PART of being college rivals with Gus Everett? Probably the fact that I wasn’t sure he knew we were. He was three years older, a high school dropout who’d gotten his GED after spending a few years working as a literal gravedigger. I knew all of this because every story he
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I HAVE A FATAL flaw.I like to think we all do. Or at least that makes it easier for me when I’mwriting—building my heroines and heroes up around this one selfsabotaging trait, hinging everything that happens to them on a specificcharacteristic: the thing they learned to do to protect themselves and can’tlet go of, even
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“An Unapologetic Love Story”: Adichie’s Gendered Romance with AfricaAdichie herself has called Americanah an “unapologetic” love story, and it is indeed remarkable how extensively it adheres to and inverts the narrative strategies of romantic genre fiction (Sehgal 2013: para. 15). To offer some anecdotal insight, I once overheard two women in a café discussing the
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