kirbyworming 's review for:

Couplets: A Love Story by Maggie Millner

5.0

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Wow, this was all sorts of beautiful. Read it quick because it's mostly composed of couplets (no surprise there, haha), but its length did not detract from the story at all. I would argue that it made the story hurt more! There's something about purposeful brevity... and Millner knows how to use as few words as possible to achieve great impact. I felt for the character -- in many ways I think about sexuality similarly, so perhaps that's why (and sexuality is the main thread/theme/etc of the work). Love is hard, love is good, love is soft... all sorts of things. Read this!!