Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.

Gardening is not a rational act.

There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up.