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Hi e’eryone and happy new year. For this week’s subscribers-only edition I thought I would send a piece of a short story I wrote while I was in Providence, RI for Christmas a couple weeks ago.
This story is kind of strange and spooky. It’s about a teenage girl who volunteers during a high school summer in a hospital. This character is someone who is given more responsibility than is appropriate, even despite her competency: a child being brought into the adult world too soon.
I feel like this story at its core asks, what are the uses and limits of empathy? While the “work” for some of us may be to cultivate empathy for others, I often think about how empathy is a double edged sword. With too much of it, there is a risk of porosity and loss of self.
I am interested in characters with an excess of empathy and the ways they are waylaid by it.
This story also looks at the use of repetitive behaviors in order to self-soothe, the small ways we exert control during times when life can feel out of control.
Look out for further excerpts in future weeks.
Sending care,
Lena
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