Caitlin Suzanne Young
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- Top Story - October 2021
Sexy People Eat SardinesTop Story - October 2021
I have never been able to tolerate canned tuna fish - the smell, the squelching sound it makes while it’s being mixed with anything else, the very concept of consuming it. The fact that this pulp fit only for animals is so frequently combined with my food nemesis - mayonnaise - only served to entrench this bias more deeply. While I still draw a line at eating shredded, watery meat from an aluminum can, I have made progress: today it is a symbolic boundary. I do regularly incorporate related sources of protein into my diet. And you might be surprised to learn that my gateway shelf-stable seafood was not the ubiquitous albacore, nor even canned or smoked salmon. It was whole sardines.
By Caitlin Suzanne Young3 years ago in Confessions
Kitsune-bi
The front page of the Savannah Morning News featured a photograph of a city square lined with luminescent live oak trees, their twisted, glowing branches dripping with Spanish moss, drooping low over the streets. Below the image was a headline that made Claire cringe. Alone on a cobblestone sidewalk at the end of a long work day, her exhaled breath was a small sound of private exasperation.
By Caitlin Suzanne Young3 years ago in Fiction