“Some animals don’t flee when the mixer comes. They hold their ground. Wait for the trouble to pass. But nothing in their evolution has prepared them for an eight-foot-wide drum covered in corkscrewing blades coming straight towards their soft bodies where they hunker in their meadow homes.” Let’s get this weekend started, shall we? We’ve […]
A typo in my great-uncle’s obituary held the key to understanding him.
Chatrooms taught me everything I needed to know about what real people were like before I had to grow up and become one of them.
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A writer examines his own depression and suicidal ideation after losing an enigmatic friend and a deeply personal book draft.
“How has someone who is a borderline rapist, murderer, and potential sociopath, endured through all these decades?”
She will grow up and leave me and yet never leave me; she will be mine forever, a being I shaped.
The adventures of superheroes reveal a lot about the people who created them — and the marginalized communities they represent.
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