She and Her Kid and Me and Mine
“To further complicate matters, we are both married to white men.” “Are you sure?” she asks as we trot down the tree-lined street, barely able to keep up with our kids. “No problem at all,” I respond....
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"But she knows that she is not Nick Carraway, she is not reliving her beloved story; no, this is not the 1920s, and she will not gloss over what happens to her next with ellipses."
View ArticleThree Stories of a Future to Come
“We worked, and loved, and charted ourselves, wrenching legibility and dignity from the system one Google Maps update at a time.” I. The Zweibel clan were known for their mastery of state, city, and...
View ArticleHostel
“Marie arrived the day of the Eiffel Tower bomb threat. She wore a giant backpack and hiking boots, as if this were the Alps instead of the Latin Quarter.” Marie arrived the day of the Eiffel Tower...
View ArticleAfter Homecoming
“I am not looking. None of my concern, I have to remind myself. A nice, respectable citizen doesn’t care what two cops are doing because he’s done nothing wrong, even if the cops are in his house....
View ArticleShots in the Dark
"Now I had never been crucified, but I had been in fights, so I knew something about the amount of blood a body could produce."
View ArticleThe History of Bodies
“But then the mind is easily gripped, meticulously tricked, even more easily flipped. There’s a word, cocina, which means ‘sty,’ in my language, but means kitchen in another.” The first thing is this:...
View ArticleIn the Opposites’ World
The fog rolling off the Schuylkill under the low sky of clouds touching the city’s towers has freed the streets of others, allowing us to walk hand in hand, chafing in unison the cement beneath our...
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