story: “The Stone”
author: Louise Erdrich
year: 2019
where: Happiness Island
note: “This story is about finding solace in an entity that isn’t human.” -Erdrich
a line: “A stone is, in its own way, a living thing, not a biological being but one with a history far beyond our capacity to understand or even imagine.”
& “A stone is a thought that the earth develops over inhuman time. It is a living thing to some cultures and a dead thing to others.”
theme(s): Inanimate and animate objects,
samantha Neugebauer 