“Burning the Diary” by Anita Tanner

You could be faulted for the impulse to burn in a wood stove your casual witnessing— small white book with your scribbles inside, feelings of meaning. Five years worth of words on thin lines under lock and key— teenage traumas, a passion here, an anger there, cursive straining for value between the lines together with […]
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