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“Smartphone Arguments”
In a Chinese restaurant, a mother and father tapped away on their smartphones, ignoring the three children in between them.
If someone was writing a story about us, Anna thought, then dismissed the possibility. No one in the restaurant was even looking at her...
Babaylan in playland by the sea
“Rosebud… A girl’s name? You wouldn’t think that a man in his dying breath would mention someone’s name out of the blue after fifty years, would you?”
“Well…you’re pretty young, Mr. Thompson. A fellow would remember a lot of things you wouldn’t think he’d...
Northeastern novocaine
The lake should have been calm, but when you catch yourself at the brink of meeting Death, when everything that you are begins to crumble down to instablity, nothing else can remain perfectly still. Gunshots and voices of their pursuers resonated along the...
Asymptotes
I instantly felt the void when I laid my eyes on her. I know for myself that I knew her like the back of my hand, but today was different. She seemed like a stranger, an alien from another planet, or some other...
Matches
Madge used to make wishes on raindrops. Lev always said that you could see more raindrops on windows than stars in the night sky and while airplanes and city lights may try to trick you, raindrops were never anything except exactly what they...
Chrysalis
Her: butterflies glimpses
The butterflies came after the fortieth day. One after another, chasing in the wafts of air like hummingbirds, encircling me with play of dainty wings. At first, it seemed normal: end of summer- winds flavoring up from sweltering to chilly to...
