The Circle in the Fire, by Flanne O'Connor

i think where you're going t this story has a similar kind of power, right? That it doesn't, it doesn't reduce. And that as a way of engaging with fiction, like, opened up this different world for me. Like, oh, yes, that's why i like reading a and, you know, thee there's like all this stuff you can, you can pull from something like this. But it doesn’t, it does not reduce in that way.