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A noise wakes me. I try to grasp the fading echoes in my dark bedroom. Maybe a car […]
Having recently overheard my neighbor’s offspring chuckling at the story of a peanut sitting on the railroad track, […]
On Hair
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My mother has peeled me an orange. Her eyesight is not good, so there is a thick layer […]
What does a homeowner look like? I was thinking about this while on the tube in London. I […]
Why AI Boyfriends Are Obsessed With Buttons, Zippers, and Impossible Outfits Some people write about AIs being obsessed […]
There are several stages to insomnia, but those suffering from this terrible affliction are actually in all the […]
We would tumble into the back of Dad’s black Cadillac like tiny acrobats, my sister sucking her withering […]
It’s started: I’m having “senior moments”, a polite way of saying I’m losing it. So far, I have […]
Bike commuting into Harvard Square has turned me into someone I barely recognize: territorial and fully prepared to […]
Request Blessed. Ida’s grouchy old washing machine sticks half-way through a cycle. Cursing, Ida manoeuvres to her knees […]
“Mummy, I’d like the merry-go-round cake from the cake book for my birthday party,” my daughter says. “This […]