My old friend and I stopped talking, and it's largely my fault.

WIT TEA
Glengarry Glen Ross for the Gig Economy
Kombucha is for closers.

BACK OF THE ENVELOPE
Ant Farm
This is a reluctance to share language with the ants. To describe our lives as we do the ants’. We say about ourselves: industry, innovation.

MICRO
Mon Tabac
I like that he’s a man of good intentions. I like that he's in it for himself.
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Q&A with Khadijah Queen, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
"I was a reluctant memoir writer and I had to decide what felt more important: keeping the stories to myself or perhaps making a dent in the stereotypes that people have about women's experiences on active duty."

A Manual for ASL Students
(Advice to ASL students: If the deaf person teaches you a sign, do not thank them again and again. Simply repeat the sign and remember it.)

“I Liked Myself Better as an Exquisite Skeleton” and “Black Lake”
I think I was waiting for someone to tell me / whether this would be a comeback story.

From the Archives: Pigeon Forge
Beatriz feels alarmingly soft in your hands, and you graze her body with your palms the way you would pet the long grass by the river where you live. She tosses her dark hair aside, wraps her hand over yours, and clenches down on her own flesh.