TEN REASONS WHY!
1) xxxxx
2) something else
3) # three of ten
4) etc.
5) death
6) something more upbeat
8

Her notebooks were so much better than her novels or short stories. Why did anyone write fiction?

While most of the time you cling to life with fierce gratitude, more often than you’d like to admit you just want to give up and drink yourself to death.

You’ve finally perfected your craft. The only interesting parts were the mistakes.

You’ve won, we have no fight left, it’s your world, which is nothing, less than nothing, welcome to it.

If one more subscription card falls out of this magazine, I’m going fucking ballistic.

Change is coming, more than your tiny brain can imagine. My one satisfaction is knowing it will take you by surprise.

What you wrote, I thought about it what it might have meant, and I don’t think it meant anything.
What I wrote wasn’t about what I wrote. It was about what you might think about it.

The inbred entitlement of the once-attractive.