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Michelle Strausbaugh
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Living the horror and wonder lurking behind the usual surface of health. I play with words in bed. Book and tea hoarder cliche. Write erratically at behindthesurface.com
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I wanted to be a Literary Writer when I grew up. Do you know how fucked that is
February 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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theres a reason this baldwin quote is my guiding light in the world. im an artist and a communist. reading is my passport into humanity.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people. An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian.
February 15, 2026 at 10:37 PM