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Stories
When the Sun is Glorious
When the Montgolfier brothers flew the first successful hot air balloon,
time blew the heat, burned the straw, and held the air still. The end
of the French Revolution was fresh and smearing into the new century,
and here was a rising trail to make the way. A crowd gathered to see it,
gathered to see this: the first time man, having already
tasted all the other elements of the decaying and vital earth, reached
up into the enormous sky. [More]
A Mural of Dark Porches
You
just came back from a walk; your lover is beside you. It had just
stopped raining when you went, and you had just stopped fighting and,
although you shouldn’t have, you laughed because all over the ground
were frogs, big and little, and you had to tiptoe. [More]
Ecology
The dead land is below my feet too, it’s under my home. Under the
asphalt, chipping the paint on the road, stuffed thick around our water
pipes, lying on the compost pile, forever laughing, forever growing with
bits of our own selves. I couldn’t clear it, and if I tried, parts of
me would become it. It all makes me want to spit; the bubbles and boils,
the cysts and pimples the earth makes. At some point in life you learn
that everything is dirty and dangerous. At another, there’s no way to
make it clean. [More]
Death in Wisconsin
Amanda had an enlightenment
and it came through the presence of a nineteen year-old boy. He was
waiting for Godot with a school textbook and skinny legs. She was
somehow still jeune et farouche and at the end of two short
but mutually exclusive lines they met, or rather he forced a meeting on
her by calling out “hey girl” across the apartment parking lot. It was
on that same summer day when he tried (but did not succeed in) kissing
her on the lips. [More]
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Readings, etc.
May 16, 2012, 7pm
Linger Lounge
Short Story Series
Brooklyn, NY
May 3rd, 2012, 6:30pm
Dovetail Reading
NYU Bookstore
New York, NY
Oct. 12, 2011, 7pm
Linger Lounge
Short Story Series
Brooklyn, NY
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