Fragments of Rasmenia Massoud: American expat somewhere in France, author of HUMAN DETRITUS & complete jackass.
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Mirror by Rasmenia Massoud
“The day Lydia died, I stopped being normal. The phone rang, a voice told me she was gone and I hung up. I didn’t know what to do. I could see the pink sunrise. Morning. I should eat some cereal and take a shower, I thought. That’s a normal thing to do in the morning.”
And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That’s what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
— Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (via foronlyever)
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MUDDY PROMISE • by Rasmenia Massoud
Death & disease are nothing against our human connections.
Neil Gaiman: Themes and Meanings (Rebloggable by request)
Hey Neil, my english Teacher keeps insisting that there are underlying themes and meanings to books and i don’t think they are intentional. Do you have any opinions when it happens to your books. When literary critics attempt to put motives and personal agendas behind your works?
It is almost dizzying to contemplate all the stories I will never read because, for whatever reason, a certain author’s work never crossed my path. Which is why I’m always searching for so-called neglected writers. What if what they have to tell is the essential thing I need to know?
— The Lonely Voice #22: RIP Richard Stern (via therumpus)
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A Story About Guns
“We are, each one of us, a story. A long story made up of thousands of tiny stories. It’s our stories that shape the way we feel about things. My story has led me to harbor a disdain of firearms. All the arguing and shouting at me about your rights won’t change my mind.”
