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Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado (born 1986) is an American short story author, essayist, and critic frequently published in The New Yorker, Granta, Lightspeed Magazine, and other publications. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette. Her stories have been reprinted in Year's Best Weird Fiction, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year, The New Voices of Fantasy, and Best Women's Erotica. She published Her Body and Other Parties, a story collection, in 2017. Her memoir In the Dream House was published in 2019 and won the 2021 Folio Prize.

Quotes

AMI NAEhas quoted2 years ago
And it isn’t that I don’t have choices. I am beautiful. I have a pretty mouth. I have breasts that heave out of my dresses in a way that seems innocent and perverse at the same time. I am a good girl, from a good family. But he is a little craggy, in that way men sometimes are, and I want.
AMI NAEhas quoted2 years ago
The moral of that story, I think, is that being poor will kill you
AMI NAEhas quoted2 years ago
I pick her up and lean her against me, whispering, “I love you, baby, and I am not going to hurt you,” but the first thing is a lie and the second thing might be a lie, but I’m just not sure.

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  • tanshared an impression19 days ago
    🔮Hidden Depths
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    Brutal. Pensaba en lo confuso y complejo que ha de ser estar en una relación abusiva, cruel y absorbente con todas las variantes en juego del tema sáfico/queer.

    Paloma Mazashared an impression9 months ago
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