https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/13/coconut-flan-fiction-catherine-lacey
Did you ever read a story and feel the protagonist in the story could be you? This is the story of an extremely passive, dependent woman in Mexico who loses her passport. Every bit of description diminishes anything of note about her. Even her voice is referred to as "little." Nobody seems to see her or remember her. Frightening in its own way. My therapist would think I wrote this. How easily this woman could disappear in a crowd.
Funny, because I don't really see you that way.
ReplyDeleteLikewise, Patti...I see you as both more accomplished and more likely to speak your mind than this would tend to imply...at least, you don't come across like that at all, rather than polite but interested in what's going on with others...in our relative few face to face meetings (a couple/few? Two cons, a NoirCon and a BoucherCon, at least) and in correspondence. But the current state of the world certainly can be demoralizing and overwhelming, and loss never helps. Health fun coming along with later years, as well, I'm noting.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you don't see me this way. Yes, perhaps the world has made me feel more like this.
ReplyDeleteThis probably won't cheer you up, but its backward upside is that it limns several of the Drumpfian failures (that, of course, tend to hurt the rest of us more than him and his toadies): https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-we-partying-like-its-1999
ReplyDeleteJust to add to the conversation, Patti, you are a breath of fresh and a walk in the park on a sunny May afternoon.
ReplyDeleteI don't see you that way either, Patti. You seem very accomplished and capable. I think we all see ourselves in different ways than others do.
ReplyDeleteI do have a short story Wednesday post up now.
ReplyDeleteOh, Patti, I really don't see you that way! You are so, so much more. The story sounds interesting, though.
ReplyDeleteI'll join in with the rest of your friends: you are smart, talented woman. I remember you standing out amid the crowds at BOUCHERCONs!
ReplyDeleteIm gawn UP to the Wedding Feast;
ReplyDeletethen I wonder if you’d like to fly to
the stars with I, yore Capt. bb9??
❌
...write zzzillions of novels/desires in
d’B.O.M.M throughout the universe?
PLUS! travel to cool, planet Avatar?
❌
...explore bizarre, psycho wurldz!
...even do a SciFi zine 4X per year!
...see God’s alt.eternal treasures?
❌
...or moovNgroovn on KodexxII ...or a
sheer gargoogolplex of parsecs withe
hang-loose/knock-out-girls? Wherever
I am, babe, look-me-Upstairs.
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Cya soon, ya gorgeous wildflower...