Daddy didn’t like spending money in restaurants. A waste, he told us, when we have food at home. I mostly ate fast food when I visited my grandparents. But, on strange and wonderful occasions, my […]
Author: Lindsay Hargrave
Lines on the Road: A Map of My Fears (Courtney Skaggs)
Carcinophobia I realize I can’t run from myself, but I cancel an appointment with the breast clinic so that I can go on a road trip. I already know I have a “palpable, previously identified […]
ON DENYING THE HORRIBLE REALITY OF BEING A CORPORATE PENCIL-PUSHER WHO KNOWS THAT =VLOOKUP IS A CROSS-FUNCTIONAL EXCEL TOOL THAT’S ONLY USEFUL FOR SUPPRESSING ALL HOPES AND DREAMS (Shawn Berman)
and perhaps i should learn to only focus on things that truly make me happy.like the first christmas we spent together,wine drunk off gas station roséeating mcdonald’s naked on our futon,just relaxing,not really doing anything […]
Wanda (Linda McMullen)
The student population of Thoreau Middle School – all 868 of us – failed to identify an appropriate social category for Wanda, so we mostly shunned her. She threw temper tantrums well into the seventh […]
Go Back to School, Greta (Sahana Ahmed)
FameShameSchwarzeneggercan get you a Tesla 3But Twitter won’t turbochargeyour trumped-up monopolyDon’t blame the kings, Gretahot lava bombs and heresyGo make some friends, GretaQuit tallying-dallying[…]
variations of a burden (J.L. Seaton)
STRANGER. It is eight in the morning, and I have already caused a scene with my carelessness. Lack of sleep makes me stupid, or perhaps that’s just me. The reason doesn’t matter (not now, at […]
If I Am A Fool (Sean Ennis)
I was watching the Impeachment when the dog walked through the room and it occurred to me that golden retrievers are supposed to be nice. That dogs understand and appreciate they’ve been rescued is not […]
The Xi Movement (Karen Steiger)
I looked up the “movement” onlineout of curiosity.And the most popular Google searches were“Is the Xi Movement a scam?” and “Xi Movement cult.”And I think if you leave your husbandand your three-year-old kidand your mortgage […]
