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1.4 KiB
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38 lines
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> To call what I am feeling a 'crush' feels inexact. It is not puppy love. It is not new relationship energy. It is not lust. It is an uncontrollable romantic desire.
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> It is not grounded in our friendship or my attraction to her. It is more of an obsession. A desperate need for her to feel the same way about me. A craving. A pang. A wildness of the heart that is as frightening as it is pleasant.
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> It is an unmoored, unmooring thing, drawing me ever upwards in lazy, undirected arcs almost --- *almost* --- against my will, ever closer to the sun.
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Six tales of love. Six tales of need, of desire, of how to live with the ones you cannot live without. Sawtooth may be a nothing town in a flyover state, but those that live there are no less real for it. They bear all the same emotions as anyone else, have all the same needs.
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**Coming November 1, 2021!**
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## Advance praise
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I'm struck by how, after finishing the collection, it feels like I've witnessed a ritual.
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--- [*Rob MacWolf*](https://twitter.com/guywhowrotethis)
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## Contents
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* Jump
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* Limerent Object
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* Gigs
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* Sorting Laundry
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* Morning Of
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* Of Foxes and Milkshakes
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### Content Warnings
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*Jump* contains mentions of sex and emotional abuse. *Limerent Object* contains strong religious themes. *Gigs* contains mentions of misogyny. *Sorting Laundry* contains mentions of transphobia. *Foxes and Milkshakes* contains homophobia.
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