Finally, thank you to everyone I’ve ever loved/made out with since spring 2004. You are not in this book and yet:
All my life,
since I was ten,
I’ve been waiting
to be in
this hell here
with you;
all I’ve ever
wanted, and
still do.
—Alice Notley
To all other writers and readers: MWAH!
Photo Credit: Itzel Santiago Pastrana
CORINNE MANNING is a prose writer and literary organizer whose stories and essays have been published widely, including in Toward an Ethics of Activism and A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault. They have received grants and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Artist Trust, 4Culture, and the Hub City Writers Project. Corinne founded the James Franco Review, a project that sought to address implicit bias in the publishing industry.
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