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I wake up at 2am from a dream in which K is talking at me through a Coke can like a walkie-talkie. I lie there trying to go back to sleep to know avail. She wakes up a little later because I’m no longer snoring so it’s too quiet. Both our alarms are set forContinue reading “Smart&Final—extra!”

I quit another social network. I lasted about ten months on Substack but couldn’t stay any longer. It’s my fault. Every time I sign up for another one I think I can handle it. But I can’t. What happens is that I start obsessing. Checking stats. Opening the thing at all hours when I haveContinue reading “Unsocial”

A young woman in a ratty sweater wanders up to a riverbank and seems ready to fall in, but then a standing kayaker in full black wetsuit floats by like an alien messenger, causing her to change course. She returns home where her exasperated boyfriend asks why she hasn’t been answering her phone. Then they’reContinue reading “Miroirs”