https://electricliterature.com/darkness-like-a-seam-by-rebecca-turkewitz/
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“When the story opens, Maribel has been sent to live with her grandparents for the summer.”
“Life in the New Hampshire woods is very different from Maribel’s life in the city.”
“The problem was that it was already too late to reveal myself.”
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“She packs a small bag and a flashlight, and prepares to make her escape into the endless woods.”
“I shifted tentatively and it felt like someone had wound a hot wire around my left calf and was tightening it slowly.”
“Miller is the Director of Operations and Fiction Editor at Electric Literature.”
“And there was a monster, a monster that looked like a pig with no eyes, but he had teeth like a wolf!”
“She took a lock of my hair in her fist and smelled it.”
“I heard her wake and go to the kitchen to begin dinner.”
““Maribel?” she asked, and something about the searching tone of her voice filled me with doubt.”
“You can rest in the car.” “Is my mother coming?” the girl asked.”
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“Who was that imposter?”
“So, perhaps, she is still out there, a version of me who was just as selfish but much braver, who acted with conviction at great personal risk, then fought her way home—all while my legs fell asleep under a side table.”
“Their voices grew faint as they moved further into the trees.”
“I couldn’t imagine entering those woods, the object of my nighttime terror.”
“For I had been my mother’s anchor—I had always tried to keep her safe, and now she was adrift.”