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Studies in Asunder

All the training for the uncanny could not have prepared us for this. Sure, we that invented theelectric chair in search of the humane. The repeating rifle. We used disease to clear land so ourchildren may inherit the earth without one thought of the meek. We, after all, dropped TheBomb. Twice. So can we be surprised that righteous blood from… Read more →

When I Was Young and Yet More Hollow

I chewed raw macaroni, uncooked oats, dry field corn from a cob. Gnawed sleeves, collars, and nibbled away erasers. I pulled threads from sweaters, spun them against my mouth’s roof like dialing a compass, then pressed the acute tang of Play-Dough, its misshapen, any-colored fruit deep into my cheek. Someone later said I wouldn’t have licked a frozen metal bridge… Read more →