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Just One Thing with Brooke Larson

July 31, 2018

 

Brooke Larson is the author of this month's featured flash fiction, and she's just as wonderfully talented with fashion as she is with words -- the dress you see is one she's working on. Here, she tells us one thing you otherwise know about her Split Lip story "Space Goggles":

 

"Recently I had the chance to perform this.  It’s part of a collection, “Origami Drama,” in which each piece interacts with the paper it’s written on.  I have fun reading them.  So there I am, having a good time, with this kinda creepy paper mask tied around my head with dental floss, when I start weeping.  Like, weeping hard, so I can’t speak.  Never saw that coming.  Yes, I had a great love that ended.  But what I wrote was not that.  What I wrote was, it seemed to me, pretty upbeat and whimsical.  So why was I crying?  That great love that was so dear to me and ended, ended flat and ugly.  We were awful at the end.  This piece imagines a different way of ending—a kind one, touched with the magic of a long perspective.  With the paper mask on, I could cry, I realized, for the possibility of generosity."

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