Midnight Breakfast
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We're @rrrubenstein, @ftpavlik, @laureneoneal, @artscollide, and @nevan and we're excited by awesome writing that sparks conversation.
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“If I had to name it, I would say that my blood felt like it was screaming.” “Static” by @PintsNCupcakes | Art by Colton Kegley midnightbreakfast.com/static
“I had spent my life thrashing like a sea creature caught in a net, relentlessly pounded by the current but never trying to gnaw my way out.” “Here’s Your Grandchild” by @ppirapokin | Art by @LisaLeeHerrick midnightbreakfast.com/heres-your-gra…
“Once, it was a gray ball hovering in the air outside her window, its surface smooth, its shading clearly done in pencil. We had no idea then that it was a planet.” “A Girl Draws A Picture” by @Ruth_Joffre | Art by @Madeline_Gobbo midnightbreakfast.com/a-girl-draws-a…
“I stood tall, towering over Ahasuerus, over my audience, like if I stuck out my tongue, I could taste God. Maybe this was what Mrs. Lubin meant by taking the opportunity. To strike awe.” “Middle Kids” by @temim | Art by @Madeline_Gobbo midnightbreakfast.com/middle-kids
“You wish you could tear out whole entries from the dictionary and from the knitted gears of the English language itself: who cares what a word means when it sounds so lovely?” “Names for the Daughter You’re Aborting” by @sawers | Art by @kelseysshorts midnightbreakfast.com/menagerie-name…
“I wonder how he spoke to his wife in their final days together. I wonder if he would have said he loved her. I wonder if he believed that he did.” “Stories That Sound Like Love” | Art by Lara Odell midnightbreakfast.com/stories-that-s…
“It smelled sterile but looked septic. White and off-white everything and the air was sandpaper stiff.” “Stories That Sound Like Love” by @mattmastricova | Art by Lara Odell midnightbreakfast.com/stories-that-s…
“One second, its long, feathered tail is swishing back and forth under the crab apple trees, and the next it has disappeared into the reeds.” “A Girl Draws A Picture” by @Ruth_Joffre | Art by @Madeline_Gobbo midnightbreakfast.com/a-girl-draws-a…
“I couldn’t sleep. The base’s silence was so unfamiliar to me. I crept to the window of the room I was in, not wanting to make a sound, to break the noiseless night.” “Static” by @PintsNCupcakes | Art by Colton Kegley midnightbreakfast.com/static
“My canines had to go to make room for my incisors, and then my wisdom teeth so a crown of bone wouldn’t crowd my mouth. I wasn’t permitted even to rattle their memory awake in a baggie.” “Menagerie” by @sawers | Art by @kelseysshorts midnightbreakfast.com/menagerie-name…
“I wanted to touch her, I thought suddenly, and was alarmed by the desire. I wondered whether the texture of her skin would be rough, like rubbing sharkskin in the wrong direction.” “Middle Kids” by @temim | Art by @Madeline_Gobbo midnightbreakfast.com/middle-kids
“My pain was no longer my fault for crawling out of the womb too early; now it was my fault for ousting Fiby from the womb too late.” “Here’s Your Grandchild” by @ppirapokin | Art by @LisaLeeHerrick midnightbreakfast.com/heres-your-gra…
“He had come to visit me. I’d shown him around the lab, introduced him to all of my trees. Their scientific names and then the names I gave them that no one else knew about.” “Static” by @PintsNCupcakes | Art by Colton Kegley midnightbreakfast.com/static
“Mornings are like this: indulgent. Between bites, we picture life in this drawing of a farm, where magnolias are always in bloom and horseflies have finally discovered the fertilizers.” “A Girl Draws A Picture” by @Ruth_Joffre | Art by @Madeline_Gobbo midnightbreakfast.com/a-girl-draws-a…
“Say yes to a blood transfusion. Make sure they resuscitate me. I want to hate you for ordering me to hike the Dolomites for your goddamn bachelorette.” “Here’s Your Grandchild” by @ppirapokin | Art by @LisaLeeHerrick midnightbreakfast.com/heres-your-gra…
“It was like the engine driving his life had seized after disuse. He had been waiting for life to happen and then when life finally hit him he didn’t know what to do.” “Bedtime Stories” by @mattmastricova | Art by Lara Odell midnightbreakfast.com/stories-that-s…
“Only when I was securely inside my bedroom every night did the feelings threaten to grow so big and overpowering I worried that, one day soon, I wouldn’t be able to contain them any longer.” “Middle Kids” by @temim | Art by @Madeline_Gobbo midnightbreakfast.com/middle-kids
“...a man who has the local accent where the vowels come out honking and rounded from deep within…” “A 1972 Witness Statement for the Police Sketch Artist Crumbles When You Lift It from the Water-Damaged Case File” by @sawers | Art by @kelseysshorts midnightbreakfast.com/menagerie-name…
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