Volume 5 Number 2
I used to babysit for two kids who lived down the street. I was a lousy babysitter. I often fell asleep before they did. When…
As far as I can tell, birds are not self-aware. A hawk does not think, “Maybe I should head over to that group of trees,…
If I could, I would make you winter all the time. The planet would spin, fixed at perihelion. Oh, the irony of our winter, when…
Harmony’s modeling program showed the distant planet as tidally locked. One side always faced its sun; the other backed onto the vast universe. Hubble shots…
Two people fucking on a table, near a professional building. A person fuck- ing near a bayou. Three really big people in a car, fucking…
Nothing is romantic about carrying a suitcase to the car. Dog runs between our legs, tail crooked, covering its genitals. We slide ice for it…
They called me Trashcan because that’s where they’d put all their candy, when they were completely done with it, and had had their fill. They…
And when I say, THIS MACHINE RUINS LIVES, I don’t mean yours but of course this machine will ruin any life. That is to say…
When my heart is a real thing you wear like a ring I say MY HEART IS A TOOL OF DEMOLITION. You see this is…
The exhibits are all dead, but there is range in their how-to, the ways they all went. We make our way through the museum, a…