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Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh












Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

I'd visit you in prison, but chances are slim that the right person will be sitting beside you in your prison cell. If you kill the wrong person, you'll get into trouble here. It will lead you through a tunnel back to where we came from.

Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

Once you've killed the right person, a hole will open up in the Earth and you can just walk straight into the hole. "Then you've got to find the right person to kill. He is the best brother ever, of all brothers here on Earth. Everything he does, it seems, he does because he loves me.

Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

I could hear his cries and feel his little fists poking through the woman's skin. It was Waldemar who persuaded me to come out finally. I had doubts, even so early on, about this place here on Earth with all the dumb things everywhere. I took some extra time to come out of the woman. I don't know how he figured it out, but thank God for Waldemar, who is so much wiser than me, though only a day older. For a long time he thought only the first part was true, but over time he's thought long and hard and figured out that there is a second way. "How do we get back to the place, to the thing, whatever?" If I knew what it was, maybe I could make something like it here on Earth. I wish I knew what it was, not because I think it would be great to tell you about it I just miss it so much. But it certainly isn't this place, here on Earth, with all you silly people. It's not somewhere or anywhere, but it's not nowhere either. There's no map because I the place isn't a place like something to be near or in or at. It's not like a real place on Earth or something I could point to on a map, if I even had a map of this other place, which I don't.














Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh