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Skyler Cail's avatar

There’s such a pull to hope Toby finds immediate comfort, but there’s also this…maniacal feeling of “yes, suffer…you did this…”

It’s such a contradicting feeling and I fkn love it.

Your writing has such a way of putting me in a chokehold and not letting me go until I recognize the very last period as the end of the piece.

So glad to have you back in my inbox! Cheering for you the whole way!

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Will Boucher's avatar

Yes, yes, yes, yes! Absolute BANGER of a piece! Every time I read your writing, I feel like I'm right there--I can see everything so clearly! I was back in my hometown a few weeks ago. I experienced the same wasteland of deserted retail spots little-me used to beg to go to, so your descriptions of abandonment hit hard.

The phrase that stuck with me: "a bizarre feast for the senses that rendered one both nauseous and famished."

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