The first story I would like to blog about is Word, by Cynthia Reeves. At first this reminded me of that one poem that talks about words and ends in the rapist is therapist. She uses good descriptions like the line "No L in tongue, after all, but sometimes her tongue felt like an L, fluid, thrusting itself inside her mouth to form Love, sometimes running itself along her teeth, lips, gums." I don't exactly understand what she is talking about metaphorically, but it is very descriptive nonetheless. Another just concrete line from this story is "She reminded herself that smug is only a word, but then hand is a word, too, as when he ran his, gently down the seam of her spine, after yes." It's easy to picture what she is talking about when she right so descriptive. Another point I would like to add is that she likes to use her commas, to help, slow down, the, reader, like, this. A good example would be "She dropped the K, inverting reverting, thinking, won, now, no." That is a different use for mechanics.
Another story I would like to mention is Look for Dr. Nick by Geri Deluca. This story was very interesting to me because I believe she was trying to prove a point. That point is that most Psychotherapist don't actually listen to you they just prescribe you drugs to help balance the chemicals in one's depressed brain. I have thought this for a while now. A line for using good descriptive words is "The chemicals in their brain that give them the illusion of an identity are out of control" of a depressed person. A line with concrete details from this story would be "It had a strange smell, like toxic fluorescent dust, and my window opened on the exhaust from the cafeteria, adding the aggressive odor of hamburgers and French fries cooked over an over in the same oil." You can just picture what this lady's office smells like from all the concrete detailed words.
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