145 Very Specific Anxieties
Things you didn’t even know you should be worried about.
Country Shit with Granddad
When I was seventeen I went duck hunting on a lake in the backwoods of Tennessee with my grandfather and uncle.
Speed Dating
What makes a successful first date?
Fable
You wake up and the woman is gone. You wake up and the woman is on her hands and knees, keening Do you know where my eyes are? I can’t find them. You look and look. The expanse above her nose naked, fig-purple. You wake up and take your hands off one by one. Every […]
Seashell with a Void in the Middle
Shall hold a life like a cupped palm, lash in the ocean. It knows the best exoskeletons protect the glass self sleeping inside. How to define oneself as a self that is only itself without the self it contained; the shell is itself because it holds, because it has not held, because […]
11/13
bangs and pops, in videos on screens a number says something’s wrong black writing: they had guns you wince a repeated trope: men in black stand before yellow tape in a bath, red and blue supine bodies float on frames guided somewhere, not here as lights play pass in the street you’ve seen this performance […]
Pursuing the Pourover
Hipsterism is just as absurd in Hong Kong as it is in Princeton.
Monticello
The meadow was farther than Turner remembered. In the growing night he was also different than I remembered, also more distant, a little less defined.
Meet the Brand
By the end of her sophomore year at Princeton, Alexandra Cerf had thousands of condoms underneath her bed.
November 13
That’s the first day. You just stay indoors and hope the terrorists don’t make house calls.
Eulogy
On the night of the attack, taxis kept running but stopped their meters.