The Short Way Home
Good company can make a short walk feel ample. In this journal, two imagined friends reach the point where enjoying each other doesn't quite mean wanting the same afternoon.
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Love, care and the familiar becoming strange.
Adults do not arrive without histories.
The Room That Refuses to Become the Past
An old study, a motel room and a threshold someone depends upon. Clara Rennick considers Willa Cather, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch, and how familiar places acquire the power to frighten us.
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Clara Rennick on intimate horror, a familiar touch and the difficulty of fearing someone whose ordinary life matters to you.
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