Some shells are meant to be broken. Others are meant to be lived in until you outgrow the world.

★★★★☆ (4/5) Recommended for: Fans of The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts , readers of Anne Carson, and anyone who has ever kept a diary in the dark.

For the patient reader, for the writer in the middle of the long dark, for anyone who has ever felt that growth requires retreat—this anthology is a rare gift. It will not change your life in a single lightning strike. It will wrap around you, thread by thread, until one day you realize you are no longer the same creature who opened the cover.