Date: December 3, 2013
"But mostly she set her intention and made a solemn promise to herself that, if she felt the surge of negative energy crawling up her body like a thousand ants, she would hold her tongue. At times it felt like a Herculean effort, as if her body was going to volcanically explode unless she allowed...
preview | full record— Paul, Sheryl
Date: January 11, 2014
"'Think about a fish tank,' says Dr. Nedergaard. 'If you have a tank and no filter, the fish will eventually die. So, how do the brain cells get rid of their waste? Where is their filter?'"
preview | full record— Konnikova, Maria (b. 1984)
Date: April 26, 2016
"It is by this dimension of imaginative relativity that Hogwarts, Middle Earth, Earthsea, Dickens's London, Hemingway's Paris, Didion's anxious California and the mind of Helen Oyeyemi, reclining like a sphinx between her pages in quiet and glittering sleep, all fit inside my tiny apartment, and ...
preview | full record— Brennan, Summer
Date: September 18, 2016
"Deep in the night, those warnings scuttle around my mind like rats."
preview | full record— Kennedy, Pagan (b. 1963)
Date: September 18, 2016
"In the red glare of the digital clock, my brain rattled its cage."
preview | full record— Kennedy, Pagan (b. 1963)
Date: February 21, 2019
"The brief and hilarious reign of the atheists ('We are all atheists where Odin is concerned!') was over and we were back to being respectful of all religions, except Scientology, which posited that there were viral clams in the mind."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia
Date: February 21, 2019
"The defences we had developed against the oppressor could only be discussed in the secret room, among others of our kind, as we poured fountains of a wine that was like our shared blood and held out our hearts that were like scraped sparrows."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia
Date: February 21, 2019
"That the shorthand we developed to describe something could slowly, brightly, wiggle into an example of what it described: 'brain worms', until the whole phenomenon contracted to a single grey inch."
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