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Still Raining in May.

"Because we members of Western society are not socially permitted to express despair in everyday life, we are more often than not forced into a kind of cruel and unsustainable quiescence." —Kate Wagner via

"But most of the actual research for this novel was not ambulatory. I mean, the river is completely gone... So it became more interesting to try to find descriptions of the river in works of literature, written by people who were seeing it, witnessing it, describing it, during the time of its aboveground existence."

"my garden
is wizened now
but soon
it will be plump
and ripe with snow"

—Debbie Strange via

"...the only surviving word of Khazar..."