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My Boyfriend Is a Wounded Animal I Want to Save

“Porcupine” by Sarah Braunstein We met in a bookstore, the Strand. The late nineties. I was trying to decide between E. B. White’s books, the pig or the swan or the mouse. He saw me deliberating. For my sister’s kid, I told him. “The mouse,” he said, with appealing confidence. He had chin-length hair, a […] The post My Boyfriend Is a Wounded Animal I Want to Save appeared first on Electric Literature .