websites
by Evan Fleischer
the websites started posting again, and everyone was surprised: alex, silvia, and choire looked at the awl and started texting “?????” to each other. former myspace employees wrote 'lol' beneath their former website now just posting wedding cake recipes. nicole cliffe and nicole chung were trying to keep daniel from challenging the current posters of the website — a website that put googly eyes on antiques — to a duel with a sword. (where did you get a sword, patricia lockwood would say, not so much alarmed as slyly curious and filled with a cat's purr of hope.) deadspin became the undeadspin. tumblr re-filled with cocks and breasts (and it made a horrible pop-pop-popping noise when it happened, too.) facebook lost ‘like’ buttons and timelines and became profiles floating in far-off corners of the internet. yahoo answers sent out an e-mail to the entire planet that said, ‘never midn’ [sic.] old livejournals started posting questions like, remember xanga? under construction gifs grew from a place of angelic fire once again. vine returned to IRL applause. google street view promised us dragons, and so we stepped outside, homemade renaissance fair swords drawn, ready to fight or ride or take any dragon anywhere with us into our own skin once again.