julia sent me a video of my cats. she knew i missed them. i ran up to the computer lab to watch it but my college roommates were already there, in my account, playing it before i even had a chance to see it. they were oblivious to boundaries and expected privacy and didn’t understand […]
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in a house, staring out the window at the most beautiful trees i have ever seen. fire trees. they look like living menorahs (with 5 flames instead of 7). each flame, a huge orange-to-yellow leaf standing on end and glowing in the setting sun. i ask john how he could ever live anywhere else, this […]
working at a hospital. there is a large 13 year old girl giving the nurses a hard time. they are tying to be patient but they can’t get past their own assumption that this is some ghetto girl who will never learn. i visit her and i see that her eyes are dry. she looks […]
living in a communal space of some sort. very shimerian. everything is wood. walls, ceilings, furniture, even the art we create is on or of wood with a dark finish. like the couch and table in my childhood home. we are sitting around, reading, playing games, chatting, sipping tea or coffee. we are ready for […]
in my father’s mansion, we are an extended family of entrepreneurs. i’m working on a new sales model. i think about it while cross country skiing with my grandpa. back home, under the warm yellow lights, i start to work it out. i want it to succeed by making the world better, not by padding […]
we mistakenly pull out a widow overlooking a deck when we tried to open it. gracie walks out and up the steps alongside the house. hannah goes out also but it starts to rain. we call for her and gracie. we pull hannah in and gracie washes down, looking like she is sleeping through the […]
