Quote of the Day “The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.” — Hortense Calisher, Standard Dreaming

“The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.” — Hortense Calisher, Standard Dreaming
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A black and white photograph of Hortense Calisher. She is sitting behind a table and visible from just above the waist. Her left arm is resting on the table, while her right arm is raised with her hand behind her head. She is wearing a knitted sweater of mostly white with black blocks in lines down the front and round the arms. Hortense looks relaxed with a slight smile on her face, as she looks sly off to her left and down. Her voluminous black hair is in a slight beehive on her head but cut into the nape of her neck.

Hortense Calisher's short story Heartburn, a body horror tale, was not her usual genre, she wrote mainly social realism, but after reading it, I bought a collection of her short stories and fell in love with her work.
Moral: if it feels right, write it.

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