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This story won second place at the MAYDAY 2024 Short Fiction Contest. The whole idea, philosophically at least, was for it to look out onto the rest of America, to build a Promethean tower of sorts – a beam with no terminus – just light – just America – god in a building, reaching up […]
The defeat of Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election was disheartening for many reasons, one of which being the gendered elephant in the room—for the second time in 10 years, the chance of a female president was crushed at the last second. While Harris did not foreground her gender in her campaign, many commentators […]
If I have wandered around this city’s broken sidewalks, pothole-ridden roads, too crowded to notice another memory-heavy somnambulist, it is because, I see no glory in being ache-chiseled into an immaculate alphabet. The lengthening shadows of the hawk on the lamp-post, the murky water that fills the rust-heavy bucket of the […]