Just got ghosted on Hinge: It doesn’t matter, the life is ruined already.
Overheard through Telegram
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Anatomy of a sane girl
Let her suck air through her teeth first, anticipating the beginning of pulling the meat.
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Carmen in the Sunset
Sitting on the veranda with her coffee cup, Her grey hair braided up, The lonely lady Carmen turns her eyes up
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Uncle Phil
At his house, I’m sitting on the screened-in porch, eating the whitest sandwich of all time: white bread, white chicken, white cheese, mayonnaise.
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60 Hours in Limbo
Twelve hours later, I AM IN AMERICA, thank Jesus and Mohammad and Buddha and all the minor religious figures I am forgetting.
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A Look Into Sleep
You shall fall asleep at your desk, wake up to frantically finish your essay, and then post a Snapchat with a filter hiding your under-eye bags and communally sharing your sleepless angst — all before the onset of the second sleep.
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Time, Space, and Train Schedules
A few married undergraduate students at Princeton tell their stories.
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Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
Their new album, Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, doesn’t reinvent the band’s sound; however, it does contain some of their best work. This is a natural extension of a long career, not just a cute or tired continuation of it.
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Boxed In
As U.S. immigration policy changes rapidly, is it fair that undocumented workers face the law without representation? Three years ago, countless stacks of cardboard boxes filled the basement closet of a tall, narrow building at Broad and Market in Trenton. Arranged without logic and hard to reach, each of these boxes opened to reveal the endless…
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Nixon’s Ghost
What separates Trump from his predecessors is his willingness, and the willingness of his supporters, to give up any pretense of subtly or slyness. Trump’s campaign, despite what the headlines say, is not unprecedented in this way. It has simply set at center stage the racial politics that Republicans have long trafficked in but preferred…
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Slapstick
The toy’s full name was Slapstick: An Authentic Comedy Toy for the Whole Family!TM, Slapstick himself being a kind of flesh-colored kidney-bean-shaped almost-humanoid character with googly eyeballs and kind of oozy chunky rubbery skin (which was in fact made of rubber with chunks in it, but no ooze; eventually the ACTC (Authentic Comedy Toy Company)…
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The Roller Rink
After a couple of weeks of summer classes, I agreed to join Mindy and a few of the other students for an afternoon trip to the local roller rink.