The Last Book I Loved: The Hours
Depression has a peculiar texture: sometimes, rather than sadness, it is an emotional flatline; the sneaking suspicion that you are play-acting.
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Larissa Pham
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Jason Edward Harrington is a frequent contributor to McSweeney's Internet Tendency and an MFA student in the creative writing program at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. He is working on his first novel. He’s on Twitter here.
The Prophecy
There was the butterfly knife. The idea of it, not the thing in reality—sleek, wicked-edged, the same kind of knife you once asked to borrow because you were walking home alone and you wanted to be the most dangerous thing out there.