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Never the Same Again The self-styled philosopher with whom I share this little concrete cage tells me this: a normal life is like, say, a fancy ring with jewels. It’s your basic circle, birth to death, studded with a few major turning points. But I’ve had a lot of time for reading and thinking lately, Read More …
Ferret Love The ferret woman has a boyfriend, but that doesn’t worry me. He’ll go away eventually, that’s the way of all things. I’m very patient. I am.   It was last spring, early, when I fell in love with the ferret woman. The first beautiful day, exquisite whirlybird of a sunny blue day, and Read More …
Tomorrowscape The future, if you think about it as simply another place to go you’ve never gone before, is bound to have its ups and down, its pitfalls and impasses not that that’s deterred billions of us – refugees from the present – from blithely heading off into the unknown even though we haven’t the Read More …
The Sound of Snow Apartment A The apartment brought her a new sense of calm. She thought of it as her cocoon. Her husband’s death had now moved into her back brain and settled down. The head-on collision. The kid texting. The trial. All of it receding into a low-grade ache in the background. Read More …
Habeas Corpus The air hung heavy on a cold morning or night in mid July, depending on whether or not you were able to sleep. Most people had stopped a few years back, instead choosing to watch the news channel which ran twenty-four hours a day. Everyone watched the same channel; it was the last Read More …
Ponckhockie Union Right now the air is fresh and bright, warming after a frost. I’m grateful to need neither sweater nor jacket as I sit here on my deck. Sunshine and breeze wrestle to decide which controls the temperature. The lawn glistens, striped by long afternoon shadows of tree trunks, and occasionally the forest shivers Read More …
Tools of Consequence Half Car Energy was all ours and we burned it. We’d run down the beach, us girls, until the jagged water-edge turned us back. We’d hop stairs to the roof and scream until a flashlight halted us. We danced loony at the worst bars until the DJ himself crumpled, hot and finished. Read More …
Bifurcation Events Elzy woke to cold, the scent of cold, of snow, of tent fabric. The coldness felt good on her hot skin. Confusion. She wasn’t in her room…? The child fell asleep again before she could figure it out. Nothing seemed worth thinking through. Her head hurt. Her chest hurt. Her tummy hurt. Her Read More …
