{"id":622,"date":"2015-12-14T19:27:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T19:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/?p=622"},"modified":"2015-12-14T19:34:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T19:34:39","slug":"new-zine-the-pale-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/new-zine-the-pale-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"New zine: The Pale Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pale Girl<\/h3>\n
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The Pale Girl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My tumor\u2019s heart is dead fluid, making it a different shape to most. This means it can only be treated with surgery, not radiation.<\/p>\n

A part of me almost likes this horrible fact, that it\u2019s liquid not solid, dead not living. Aggressively expanding in a way the living, circular little ones don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I am the rarest of a rare kind. It is a horrible horrible miracle that this pale girl in me lives at all.<\/p>\n

I am Schroedinger\u2019s writer. Whether I live or die, this story exists on the razor-thin line between the possibilities. Whichever happens will cast its shadow backwards, of course. Such is the nature of the past as seen from the present.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Mary Borsellino discovered she had a brain tumor, she coped with it the only way she knew how: by writing about it. And New Zealand. And the Antichrist. And dating sim video games. As one does.<\/p>\n

I left a piece of my heart behind in that day. I wish I could go back to it now, and live in it, static, forever and ever.<\/p>\n

But time and life don\u2019t work like that. We leave pieces of our hearts behind in the memories of the good days, but we can\u2019t go back. Only forward, into the dark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can download the .pdf for free here<\/a>, or get it for free\/.99c (depending on if you have kindle unlimited or not) from Amazon here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(This is probably the closest thing to a\u00a0\u2018sequel\u2019 to Sharpest<\/i>\u00a0<\/a>that I\u2019ll ever write. It\u2019s also kind of sketchy and disjointed and weird.<\/p>\n

I hope some of you like it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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