“Right now I felt like a person learning that a surgeon had left a pair of scissors inside her during a operation.” DescriptionSimileAlexandra Kleeman Book:You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine Source: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
“I remembered from movies and TV that a human being striking a window could cause it to shatter, but the glass was too strong or I was too weak. My body didn't do much anymore when I put it to things. I didn't even make much noise pounding my fist against the glass: the ones that turned to look dismissed me almost before they had swiveled their heads. I might have been a painting of a hysterical female, paused in motion and screaming decoratively. But my throat was going raw, and my hands hurt dully.” DescriptionAlexandra KleemanHysterical Female Book:You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine Source: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
“In the advertisement, anonymous hands wielded shiny shiny blades that chopped through butter and animal bone as if they were the same thing, through ice and tendon and untreated wood as if there was no difference between anything in the world—only a slight variation in grain, visible once something has been split in half.” DescriptionAlexandra KleemanIntimationsAdvertising Consumerism Book:Intimations: Stories Source: Intimations: Stories