Mexico
byTHE MOMS SAID IT WAS RIGHT FOR ADANTE AND HIS SISTERS TO LIE ON THE COLD BASEMENT FLOOR WITH THE EYE MASKS AND NO BLANKETS. They said that not having…
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The Gospel According to Mary Mason
byA FOOT OF SNOW BLANKETS THE GROUND. Standing outside the hospital entrance, a robotic Santa twists and turns as it greets passersby. The radio’s blaring Christmas carols, and by the time…
Millennial Hero
byBEFORE SETH GOT MARRIED AND JON-BO CHECKED HIMSELF INTO REHAB, WE USED TO JUST WANDER AROUND TOWN. We’d pop into bookstores and read comics we couldn’t afford and ignore the way…
The Block
byTHE HOUSE WAS AROUND THE BLOCK, AT THE END OF LEO BABIC’S STREET. It’s long been torn down now. But thirteen winters ago Leo Babic went into it and never came…
Fugu
byTHE OLD MAN MAMORU WAS ON HIS BOAT IN YOKOHAMA WHEN TOSHIRO YELLED AT HIM. Oy, old man where are you going? Sailing north, he replied. Toshiro pointed at the…
Things About to Disappear
byAS EARTH’S GRAVITY SLOWLY WEAKENED, NO PART OF THE CIRCUS WAS MORE GREATLY IMPACTED THAN THE TRAPEZE ACT. Some circuses incorporated weights that approximated traditional gravity, but in addition to…
There Are Too Many “I”s in Neoliberalism
byI STARTED WATCHING THE GOOD PLACE DURING MY SENIOR YEAR OF COLLEGE to procrastinate writing my moral philosophy paper — because those are pretty much the same thing, right? I…
Everything All At Once
byELEANOR AND JANET SIT SIDE-BY-SIDE ON A SIMPLE WOODEN BENCH IN AN IDYLLIC WOOD, sharing a peaceful moment of deep significance – and a pitcher of margaritas. It is a…
800+ Deaths
bySHE WEARS A MATCHING PURPLE VEST-SKIRT COMBO AND A JAUNTY SMILE AND THEY KEEP KILLING HER. Janet is an intelligent entity. “Not a girl,” she keeps having to correct other…
