RE: Homeward Bound -- a five-minute #freewrite

[kaelci]

Very astute. 🙂

_{There's usually a smidgen of reality interwoven within all of my fictional pieces... a life of regret is one way of putting it.}

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[notacinephile]

But perhaps that what makes it beautiful. We can relate to sorrow and despair more intimately than we can do with happiness.

I like a quote by Kafka a lot that goes here—

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?"