JUST SAY ME
A MEMOIR
just say me
is about the pummeling grief
of leaving someone you still love.
friendship that is water
when you are a desert.
and lots of fucking.
EXCERPTS
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THE DAY WE
SEPARATED OUR BOOKS
THE DAY WE
SEPARATED OUR BOOKS
"We had come smack up against our truth, though we still weren’t calling it the end. We used words like try. I would try to live somewhere else...."
CITY SO PRETTY
IT FELT LIKE PUNISHMENT
CITY SO PRETTY
IT FELT LIKE PUNISHMENT
"...so goddamned beautiful it felt like punishment. Like a penance. To have arrived without skin. Everything made of salt. And still, to be beaten with the beauty. Glance upon glance; relentless."
SPIRITUAL
POTLUCK
"The map of my life had a new pin in it, with a before and an after. I was surprised to find myself weighing the two worlds, each in a palm. The old riddle, which is heavier: a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?"
SPIRITUAL POTLUCK
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE LONGEST WHILE
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE LONGEST WHILE
"...My pulse beat a rhythm in my neck. Sensing the energy there, he pushed my hair to the side and kissed me ever so gently where I felt most alive in that moment. I had to hold onto the wall."
A WORLD WITH END
"...sent long shadows up from our feet, and threw us and everything into a veil of persimmon light. We were awash suddenly in gold and the sky was purple and the plants were blue and all of the things in god’s true world took on a different hue..."
WORLD WITH END
SUICIDAL TACO
SUICIDAL TACO
"Sometimes we leap headfirst from a high-up window and it seems beyond crazy, but we believe that we can survive, and anyway even if we're not sure, it's still worth it. So we go for it."
SAY HI
BOOKsONG
Waiting for the Wind by Liah Alonso
Liah Alonso is a native Californian singer-songwriter and social activist, living out of a guitar case with part-time residences in NYC, Nashville, and Mexico.​ The first time Lauren heard Liah play "Waiting for the Wind," she knew it was the soundtrack to her story. So when her story became this book, she asked Liah for permission to feature the song here. Have a listen.
