“She was truly happy for the first time in her life, and it felt just like living in a small room painted all white, with windows looking out onto impenetrable forest.” HappySimileDescriptiveAlexandra KleemanIntimations Book:Intimations: Stories Source: Intimations: Stories
“There are times when any amount of being within the world is like rubbing bare skin against sandpaper, when any form of motion is a kind of abrasion, leaving you raw and pink and vulnerable to the next thing. At these times I prefer to close my eyes and be still, still like the cups or candles or crackers on the table, nerveless and open. I closed my eyes and tried to think of the thing furthest from my situation.” SimileDescriptiveAlexandra KleemanIntimations Book:Intimations: Stories Source: Intimations: Stories
“Standing there small among the boxes of Kandy Kakes that rose like brownish cartoon cliffs around him, he resembled the videos I'd seen of sea lions floating angelically among the kelp, black bodies filmed from below, their shapes cut out in bright sunlight, bodies mistakable for those of a human being. I felt the memory of a shadowy arm around me, a watcher again, sitting there on the couch with my boyfriend, watching the animals become prey. Somewhere there were giant whales feeding on creatures too small to see, pressing them against fronds of baleen with a tongue the size of a sedan. There were polar bears killing seals, tearing ovoid chunks from out of their smooth, round bellies. In the surrounding vastness of the warehouse, I heard something scratching against the concrete floor and knew there were rats here, scraping a thin film of nutrient from the dry packaged matter that surrounded them. Life was everywhere, inescapable, imperative.” LifeBeautifulNatureAnimalsEndingDescriptiveFood ChainLast LinesAlexandra KleemanThe Circle Of Life Book:You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine Source: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
“There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.” EmotionsDescriptiveAlexandra KleemanIntimationsOld Movies Book:You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine Source: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine