story: “Wild Berry Blue”
author: Rivka Galchen
year: 2014
where: some backseat taxi, some bedroom
note: the strongest, in my opinion, from her American Innovations collection
a line: “He was my first love, my first love in the way that first loves are usually second or third or fourth loves. I still think about a stranger in a green jacket across from me in the waiting room at the DMV. About a blue-eyed man with a singed earlobe that I saw at a Baskin-Robbins with his daughter. My first that kind of love. I never got over him. I never get over anyone. ”
bonus line: “A part of me decides I am taking him back into my heart. Even if no room will be left for anything else.”
samantha Neugebauer 