This isn’t the play I thought I was in, I say, when I go to bed, again, without you. It’s not the part I was first offered, I tell myself as I lie awake.
Two Poems
Love Notes and Furious Outbursts
In the middle of our conversation, well their conversation, someone from the table facing us came over, handed me a note, and left. Eagerly, I opened it. My heart sank when I read the words: “Don’t Fucking Stare!”
Uncertain Endings
Fergus Falls News, August, 1909 J Montgomery hospitalized for insanity… young man’s situation is pitiable as he has been a cripple for a long time. A few days ago he became violent and mustering all his strength, endeavored to kill his mother and sister with an ax.
Beach Rats: A film by Eliza Hittman
If character is destiny, there might be little hope for Frankie. Repression only goes so far.
Marjorie Prime: a film by Michael Almereyda
n the near future, technology allows the creation of primes, fully interactive holograms designed to resemble once-living people.
On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato
Throughout this novel, massive in its eloquence, time is bent like a Slinky toy.