Emma Straub is the author of a short-story collection, Other People We Married, and the forthcoming novel Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures. Her earliest crushes were River Phoenix, Joey McIntyre and Andrew McCarthy, and her most recent crushes are her husband, her cats, and cheese.
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Emma Straub
Hello, you. June’s theme will be LONGING. Unlike more-acute forms of desire like desperation or need, longing is a sweet ache—more pining for something than dying for it. It’s nostalgia, homesickness, boredom, a persistent feeling of lack, dreaming of escape/the future. It’s summer: summer homes & cottages, stuffy summer bedrooms, sun-bleached memories of summers past. The shadow of September that hangs over June. It’s secret hangouts, crushes, unrequited love. Send what you’ve got here, and thanks. ♥
