In illustrations, a thin line or a curved line or a broken line can illustrate softness.
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From the Archives: The Observer’s Cage
Of all of us, she was the most tied to the telescope. It had been her idea. All these men and their obsession with disk size. A thirty foot disk, a sixty foot disk, a hundred foot disk. Part of her genius was to imagine a different shape: the wide fragile net.
ESSAY
To Ruminate, Begin Here
You’ll never truly know and will always be left wondering. Return to 1 for other realities.
FICTION
From the Archives: Sluts
“It’s blowjob never blow job. ATM is not where you take money out of a machine.”
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Excerpt from False Prophet
My mother’s death had punctured some hole in me that drained all my confidence and joy. Everything felt wrong, so I did nothing, backing out of meetings with producers, retreating from every door success opened.
From the Archives: When Joan Jumped Into the Sea
A small child can swim through the veins of a blue whale.
From the Archives: The National Gallery
I wasn’t pedaling across town to Capitol Hill because some legislative type was too embarrassed to rent porn videos in person.
We Were Singing
not dead but being embalmed; we were singing the whole / time – out of key, nonetheless, but singing
The Gleaner’s Daughter
Time and geography decide what counts as abundance. But abundance was not where I came from.
