This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the … - Karen Thompson Walker

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You have to have a mentality. This is a business. This ain't hanging out having a good time

Karen Thompson Walker

This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.

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With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?

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Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

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My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

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In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

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