Everything and Nothing
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"The feeble brittleness of loyalty, promises, and affection never ceased to distress and hypnotize me. It was all a convoluted joke that I thought about often, especially in relation to my parents. To know how in love they were before they got married and to see the way they were with each other afterward broke my heart. When I imagined myself in either one of their positions, life became bankrupt, vacant, and insignificant. It confused and frightened me that tender affection could oscillate swiftly and unexpectedly into violent enmity and alienation. How does love do that? I always asked the black sooty void of all my unvoiced unanswered questions. I was the smooth, white bewildered, disorientated optimism vanishing into the ebony velvet of my parents’ irreparable marriage, and I was irretrievable. Love was all kinds of chilling, ominous magic." - Everything and Nothing, Nala Emme
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Prose and poetry tell the multi-narrative story of one pivotal summer during the lives of four interconnected individuals as they grapple with family conflict, friendship, and individuality, with first love and second chances, with impermanence and spirituality, and with the sweeping awareness of mortality.