liminal
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Apropos for a story about people on the margins, his settings are liminal: a highway shoulder, a charred underpass, a real-life fast food drive-through.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
“The importance of not rushing girlhood,” Ms. FitzSimons writes, “that liminal phase after the haze of early childhood but before boy-crazy adolescence” was a personal cause for American Girl’s creator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
With liminal spaces all the rage now, Kelly forged his own long ago, one in which you can laugh out loud but always with one eye open.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Indiana is in many ways a liminal state, the place you pass through between scruffy Cleveland and business-like Chicago, with little to inspire romantic odes to home.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Most were happy enough with what they understood of their liminal existence and did not seek help from seers.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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