Selection for Feb/March 2014

Leaving the Sea by Ben Marcus

We tried "Sea of Hooks" and it didn't work out. So now we'll try "Leaving the Sea" by Ben Marcus. Marcus is my hero and this is his new book of stories. "Sea of Hooks" was bad, so now we're "Leaving the Sea"...get it??

Brittle

BRITTLE
What makes a person brittle? Pain can make you brittle, being like glass or clay, being dropped too many times, being fired at too high a heat, being thrust into the cold, being forced -- all these but also this: an insistence on beauty can make a person brittle.


BRITTLE
And all that pushing away of the unbeautiful will make you brittle.





Sea of Hooks
pg. 59