story: “The Husband Stitch”
author: Carmen Maria Machado
year: 2017
where: gold sofa
note: Feelings on Occam’s razor?
craft note: There are stage directions throughout the story.
a line: “Afterward, everyone believed that she had wanted to die, even though she had died proving she wanted to live.”
extra line: “As a grown woman, I would have said to my father that there are true things in this world observed only by a single set of eyes.”
theme(s): Truth, Being believed, Women and Men
samantha Neugebauer 