Taken from the 2003 collection, The Burned Children of America, Jonathan Safran Foer's short story, A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease, is one of my favourites!
Imagine your closest relationships and all the things you cannot say to the other person, be it from personal history, a desired future or the sheer depth of feeling between you. Now imagine trying to represent all those gaps, ellipses and silences with symbols...
There, now you have the basis of Safran Foer's short and wonderful story!
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