What a clean arching curve I made when I leapt from the deep green sea and cast myself into your glittering net. Gently, you pulled me from your web, studied my scales, and said, “Oh, Mr. Fish, you’re splendid! But I’m afraid you’d never do. You see, I’m waiting for the perfect catch.” Then you […]
The mind can only do so much, and it’s often full of tricks; it orders you to fear the worst though something needs to happen first. It warns you not to be in love or share your honest thoughts, despite the fact that time is short and love might be your last resort. It talks
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Fractal is an American village of 100 people. One man named Wilson Corrigan controls 40% of the community’s wealth. Wealth equals assets minus liabilities. Corrigan’s assets are immense. He’s worth billions of dollars. In fact, he owns more wealth than the bottom 90% of the community combined. He oversees all the major businesses and most
I wanted to return to some imaginary life based on a collection of unstable memories I thought were real. I would gaze fondly on those memories and dwell in their hazy light, hoping they would do more than flicker in and out of my thoughts like quiet visitors shapeshifting from one identity to another, never
Bright light, whiter than the sun, glittered for an instant before the sound split my ears and I dissolved, my last and only thought that no one would know I had come home. Years later, my daughter paused on a remote sidewalk and stared down at my shadow, which had been seared into the pavement.
The pipes are leaching lead. Heavy metal has bound itself to the body parts of children and will never let go — thousands of lives damaged by the same eternal problem that will be blandly avoided until it visits our neighborhood.