the john cheever inspired ‘no room’ by theloverthekeeper
“but i awoke at three, feeling terribly sad, and feeling rebelliously that i didn’t want to study sadness, madness, melancholy, and despair. i wanted to study triumphs, the rediscoveries of love, all that i know in the world to be decent, radiant, and clear. then the word “love”, the impulse to love, welled up in me somewhere above my middle. …