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Tommi Parrish is a cartoonist, illustrator and art editor based in Montreal, whose second work and first long-form graphic novel, The Lie and How We Told It, was published in 2017.
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‘They say they are too busy but actually they are too busy for you.’
A story by graphic novelist Tommi Parrish.
‘During sex, Narumi would picture herself as steamed rice being turned into mochi rice cakes.’
‘He told me he had quit his job the day after the earthquake and came out here with nothing but a sleeping bag.’
‘I began to lie awake at night thinking about all the terrible things I’d ever done, listing them quietly in my head, each selfish little thing, my body numb with guilt.’
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