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Compression: Elizabeth Wade

Flash Fiction Writer Elizabeth Wade“Perhaps it’s because of my fascination with all things medical, but I can’t think of the word ‘compression’ without linking it to ‘fracture.’ And I think that’s apt with respect to my work. My current project synthesizes the protagonist’s medical history and a love story. Both things are fragmented, both in the telling and in the protagonist’s memory of them. We often think of compressing as condensing, but that’s not quite right, I think. Rather, it’s the moment when the spine of a thing shatters, when it can no longer stand on its own, when it needs to be tethered to something else for support. Paradoxically, then, compression in my work is not when things are most distilled but when they are most intertwined with the objects around them.” — Elizabeth Wade

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