Summary of Liz Phair's Horror Stories

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 I was 18 years old when I went to college, and I was scared all the time. I was afraid to ask the other students what the professor meant when he said our reading was reserved in the library. I was too scared to use my zip card in the cafeteria line, in case there was a trick to it.

#2 We all make mistakes, but when we turn our faces away and pretend to be better than others, we allow them to think that they are repulsive.

#3 The girl in the bathroom was passed out, her head resting on the floor next to the toilet, a big smear of excrement extending out from between her sprawled legs. I’d never seen someone who’d shit themselves before, let alone publicly.

#4 I had to help a girl who had passed out in the bathroom. She was covered in her own vomit and her underwear was soiled, which made us all extremely uncomfortable. I can’t get that image out of my mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669385103

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was 18 years old when I went to college, and I was scared all the time. I was afraid to ask the other students what the professor meant when he said our reading was reserved in the library. I was too scared to use my zip card in the cafeteria line, in case there was a trick to it.

#2

We all make mistakes, but when we turn our faces away and pretend to be better than others, we allow them to think that they are repulsive.

#3

The girl in the bathroom was passed out, her head resting on the floor next to the toilet, a big smear of excrement extending out from between her sprawled legs. I’d never seen someone who’d shit themselves before, let alone publicly.

#4

I had to help a girl who had passed out in the bathroom. She was covered in her own vomit and her underwear was soiled, which made us all extremely uncomfortable. I can’t get that image out of my mind.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

When we got to the top of the hill, we saw our husbands already halfway down, talking. We took any chance we got to get some peace and quiet.

#2

I was getting LASIK surgery tomorrow, and I had to let my eyeball spring back on its own. I was imagining the trees buried beneath me, and I thought of a scene in a film where a dead pharaoh was being laid to rest in his underground burial chamber.