Book Your Injectables | Jennifer Robinson
"Side effects may include: conflating appearance with self-worth, emotional regression, decreased compassion, and debilitating perfectionism..." A micro essay by Jennifer Robinson.
Paradoxes, Borders, and Tragedies | Lillie E. Franks
"The prison warden says to the prisoner, 'You will be executed sometime during the next week. It will be on a day you do not expect.' The prisoner concludes that they cannot be executed on the last day of the week, or they would expect it..."
Rent, Gold, and Chicxulub: A Core Sample of Our Deposits | A.T. Yano
"Our dense temperate rainforest convulses from Chicxulub’s impact heard around the globe then lies eerily still. An old Tyrannosaur guards her first successful nest, determined. One peeking snout. Two more. Flustered chirps: a will to live..."
Love in the Knots of the Coptic Stitch | Beth Kephart
"Be aware the flowers will fade, that the fibers in the new paper are the fibers from the old paper, that whomever you were in the original will be whomever you are. There are no blank sheets..."
Bus Stop | Samantha Steiner
"...if you saw me you’d just think, hey, there’s this kid with curly hair and big headphones and maybe he’s on his way to school, and maybe he’s a skateboarder..."
The Noblest of the Senses: A Catalog | Joshua James Amberson
"René Descartes famously called sight the 'noblest' of the senses... the high status of sight is truer than when he wrote the words in 1637, as the printing press was taking the place of oral traditions." Joshua James Amberson on "vision's reign" in storytelling media and at large.