Better Words For Said Novels & Stories

in what you said, right? "You... Impolite."

I said it. I can't believe I said it...! ******

I said nervously “Fuck, me too”

I said softly. "Dig."

Lena said, in the particular and measured quality of a woman choosing each word, "exactly right." The specific and complete answer. No elaboration. No the city is wonderful or I've been adjusting or the particular and compensating quality of a woman who felt she owed a fuller account. Two words and a period and the calm and direct look of a woman who was done. Bridget waited for more. More did not come. "You seem happy," Bridget said. The word happy in her mouth had the specific and particular quality of a word being used to mean something adjacent to itself.

I said. "Not well," he said. He said it simply — two words, the same weight as everything else, no elaboration offered and none invited. But I heard what was in them. The specific quality of not well from a man who chose his words with the care of someone who understood that precision was a form of respect. Not well. I didn't ask anything else.

he said seductively. "Oh! Yon!"

Coming without the answer means you're here for the actual thing rather than the managed version of the actual thing. She sat with this. She said: I'm not okay. The words arrived simply and without drama and with the specific quality of something that had been true for a while and was finally being said in the place where saying it could do something useful. Senna said: I know. I've been watching it build. She said: you didn't say anything. Senna said: you needed to arrive at the saying yourself. If I had named it first you would have managed my naming of it rather than feeling what was actually there.

I said. ***

I said. “Okay…….it’s,”