No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

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The author's aptitude for convincing, monologue-like voices makes it clear that these stories are set firmly (or perhaps loosely, either way) in the mindset of each of the beautiful but often marginalised protagonists. July’s short fiction is quirky and self-consciously postmodern in style … The best of her stories adds a depth of emotional truth which can persuade you to believe in her most oddball worlds. This autumn she debuts the audience-participatory performance, New Society , and launches Somebody , a messaging service created with support from Miu Miu. There are many more stories with characters and situations that struck me and haunted me long after I read their last lines. But instead of seeming extreme, these situations seem like the best possible outcomes for their characters; if you strip away our romantic delusions and fantasies, this is what’s left.

July's quicksilver fiction is always surprising, and it takes pains to remind us that, somehow, we all belong somewhere. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. She wanders in and out of her thoughts and ponders her deepest fears she lives through in her dreams: “This pain, this dying, this is just normal. I was the kind of kid who failed school -not because I was stupid, but because I needed to focus, come back down to earth, stop daydreaming.In ‘This Person’ a woman discovers her life has been just a rehearsal when she finds ‘a long rambling phone message in which every person this person has ever known is talking on a speakerphone and they are all saying, You have passed the test, it was all just a test. Only the ones that got too much into problematic relationships didn't work so well for me (probably content based). After that, she released two more full-length LPs, 10 Million Hours A Mile in 1997 and Binet-Simon Test in 1998, both released on Kill Rock Stars. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This person wonders if there will ever be an Olympic contest for holding your breath under bathwater.

Intimate, original and more than a little strange, these are tales about people who are baffled and often overwhelmed by life.There are balloons taped to the benches, and the girl this person used to stand next to at the bus stop is waving a streamer. This person is laughing out loud with relief and playing the message back to get the address of the place where every person this person has ever known is waiting to hug this person and bring her into the fold of life.

But now they are simply saying it, I love you, and the chemistry and PE teachers are also saying it and this person can tell they really mean it. This person almost can't believe it, it seemed so real, this person's heart was broken and has healed and now this person hardly knows what to think. She tells her off-beat and romantic or oddly sinister stories, dramatizes quirks as real characters and situations, and enchants you with her squeaky little voice. The BBC newsreader solemnly informed us that one person was taken to hospital for smoke inhalation and several more staff members were treated on site.

Her protagonists’ most common ailment is a symptom of celebrity magazine culture – especially rampant in her home town of Los Angeles – in which they come to believe that life always could, indeed should, be more glamorous than it is. You're saying: this moment is important enough to be recorded exactly, in sight and sound, for posterity.