The line between reality and fantasy is blurred from "summary" of Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
In school, she learned to write. When she wrote, she created a world where reality and fantasy intertwined, where truth and imagination danced together in a blur of words on the page. She didn't know where one ended and the other began; they were all part of the same tapestry, woven together by the threads of her own experiences and desires. As she delved deeper into her writing, she found herself losing track of what was real and what was make-believe. The characters she created took on lives of their own, speaking to her in whispers and guiding her pen across the paper. They inhabited a world that was both familiar and strange, a place where anything was possible and nothing was off-limits. Her words were a mirror, reflecting back to her the distorted image of her own reality. She saw herself in the characters she wrote, saw her hopes and fears laid bare on the page. The line between her own life and the lives she invented became blurred, indisti...
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