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WHAT WE USED TO SAY
You were your own person.
MATCH THE PERSON TO THE LIGHTS THEY LOVE
Your goal is to match each person to the lights they love.
IT’S CLINICAL
A week to end all weeks.
KEEPING UP WITH MYSELF, KEEPING UP WITH YOU
Years ago, I used to star my nails with moons . . .
EARLY THERMAL WEAPONS
Is the world a puzzle or a mystery?
THE LONELINESS ISSUE
Strangers in Las Vegas connect strangely.
Trinkets
“You must never ask Dada Abbu about the trains, meri jaan,” she would warn. “He doesn’t like to talk about them.”
VIETNAMESE GUY AT THE NAIL SALON
The Vietnamese guy at the nail salon asks me how my day’s going. I sit down and smile politely answering proudly in flawless German “alles gut, und dir?”
Necropolis
It’s not like Ba to let something so benign rile him.
CONCENTRIC CIRCLES
Tom wasn’t keen, but there was no choice near the jetty before we caught the tour boat.
Manhattan Schist
“Reid was the most observant, sensitive child, compassionate to a fault – and we need people in this world devoted entirely to beauty.”
WANDERING STARS
Manual labor suited Kiichi best. After the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923 killed his wife and young daughter, he ended up in Kobe and worked at the port as a ...
OUR TOURIST
Our tourist stood at the street corner. They didn’t know how to get to where they were going and were too scared to ask us for help.
The wind blew their ...
EMILY, ANECHOIC
The anechoic chamber lay at the heart of six concrete onion layers, a nesting of rooms within rooms, each room with twelve-inch thick walls. The chamber made no contact with ...
Someday We’ll Dance Again
Set in 1906, a young man from Gibraltar who emigrates to New York City to make a new life for himself and escape the past.
Someone to Love Me
He said he was a fashion designer. But he lived off his investments.
NO MAN’S LAND
His bottle’s gone. His power.
He turns towards The Lovely Adrienne to tell her: stall them, feed them a line. Too late, she’s already in the ring, her feathers sweeping the ...
Roman Numeral Relationships
An observation and mediation on modern life and love.
JFK
So the plane is landing and I’m sitting next to my friend Sara who is going to NYU — in business class, mind you — we got upgraded — and ...
The Compass Turns Thrice
Time is wobbling the way compass points hover or spin for no rhyme or reason on a nautical chart.