I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep.
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside.
Amen.
My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
Aimee BenderI want to be violated by insight.
Aimee BenderThe wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
Aimee BenderBut what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
Aimee BenderI've noticed this: when it's the first date, and you fuck, the guy hold you much better than he does the next few times. The first date, you're sort of the stand-in for whomever he loved last, before he fully realizes that you're not her, and so you get all this nice residue emotion. I felt cherished, tucked into his belly, like we'd known each other for years and I was his wonderful girl and we both slept great.
Aimee Bender...after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
Aimee BenderTags: motherhood
I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
Aimee BenderTags: gossip sensationalism
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside.
Amen."
— Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
Aimee BenderTags: light
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