Trash Wars
Being both humdrum and unavoidable, garbage is the interface where everyone meets the environment as obligation. Many of us who were young during the 90s had...
Swamp Goog
This project has been suspended as of December 16, 2025. You would recognize Puppy, the floral Jeff Koons topiary in front of the Bilbao Guggenheim, and...
You Shall Know Them by their Hashtags
Twinja’s Very Online Antifa Supersoldiers If memory serves the video opened with Teletubbies dancing to a music box tune but soon devolved into a mosh pit of...
How to Thread a Wertheim
My mother-in-law died some years ago at the beginning of August. Immediately afterwards she gave me my son-maybe that doesn’t make sense but I am sure of it....
To the Scientists Now Losing their Jobs
To the Scientists Now Losing their Jobs: Let us dispense with pleasantries— I know you feel terrible and I’m sorry. There are people who are going to pat...
Embedded
Yanya was unconscious on the floor, breathing but not responding to her name. She had been there for a while. Her friend became concerned and got ahold of...
Sulfur Season
(apologies to Noah Kahan)
it did not win anything in the contest
but i was perhaps undeservedly pleased with it
Terror, Baby
SIDS is ETA
All My Letters Were Written by Ghosts
“What’s that sound? Is that a cat or a baby?” “That’s a baby. Yeah, so I had a baby, in May. Wild, yeah? I have a cat too, but she’s not as loud?” “How was...
Culture Fit
He told me I write well in Spanish and then he recounted an anecdote that suggested I was pronouncing my name incorrectly. I had known I was pregnant for...
The Snail Turbine
The guy actually still had pretty white teeth. My dad mentioned it, and I hadn’t noticed, but he was right. We were doing our best to keep brushing our teeth...
Why it Didn’t Work Out
This Time/Again
Displacement is a State of Mind
We still carried the bills and coins we could lay hands on at the time even though they won’t buy you anything now. For a few months my father kept a small...
Plastic Squid
“So it’s just evolution, ok? Humans dump all this plastic and it ends up in the ocean, and then with like, the sun and storms and waves and all that, the...
The Ides of Tides
Last year on this day when my father turned 70 I called to wish him a happy birthday and he said he was not excited about it. He had just been vaccinated and...
Maren Will Be Right with You
A couple months ago I wouldn’t scoffed at the idea that this could be done but now I believe it, or I am growing towards believing it. We were eking our way...
Recruited
From the things he did you would believe he was out there aggressively knocking on doors and making the world fit his aims, corralling it into his...
Time Dilation and Death
A Critical Analysis of Crucial Factors Involved in Manipulating Variable Time at the Moment of Cessation
Deep Sea
This is Fairly Unpleasant