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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”

I text Mallory that I’m thinking of going to her reading in Pilsen on Saturday night but she answers she’s sick in bed and won’t make it. I decide to go anyway. It’s not far from home and I recognize a couple readers’ names from the internet. I lock up my bike on the shortContinue reading “apothecary reading”