In the Slipstream by Sarah Lynn Hurd


This is a nostalgic story about perfect moments, and how it’s often impossible to see them until they’re long over. It’s short, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot since I finished it.

It was the summer after college and we were in love—all six of us—with ourselves, with each other, with the expanse of life we couldn’t yet see the horizon of.

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