Lock-Out

Recently one night at a gas station, and for the first time, I locked myself out of my car. Just as I hung up the gas pump, I hear a series of clicks: I-click-spin-click. A-click-round-click. I look inside. The car keys, along with purse and phone book are there. I pull on all four door [...]

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what could have been

This came tucked inside a shipment of Swarovski crystals. The instructions look drawn and penned by Edward Gorey, as if he had once been an online retailer of chandeliers. He’d call the business Gorey Lighting.

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Instructions for Care

Every few days it rains, and so I think about roofs. I wasn’t always like this. Before, rain made me think of warm foods I wanted or movies I’d watch and fall asleep to. Now rain makes me aware of the bald patches in the ceiling at work, formed by age and weather. Two trash [...]

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