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One yellow microbe (coronavirus) which is oval and has a crown circling it is centered to the top middle left with a black background, it's crawling along a red cell that seems circular, but only a quarter of the circle is showing.

Supply Chain Plaything

Microbe plays hopscotch on metal on plastic on leather on the rich juicy arm


On a pathway lined with trees and wooden fences, with a stop sign at the end, a male deer walks towards the side.

All the Parts of Things

Another dermatologist, his voice a baritone of confidence, a foghorn, a steady hand, said, “We will be sure to treat this very aggressively. Because it’s the worst thing that can happen to a pretty young woman, her hair falling out.”

I stared at him for a beat too long, my thin brown hair knotting like brows.

“Well, you know,” he grinned and a hand fluttered in front of his face, a butterfly of bashfulness. “One of the worst things.”


A net filled with water against a black backdrop.

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.


Pictured is a landscape of gray and soft red hills, some smooth, some textured from volcanic eruption. The hills live within a crater that is otherwise flat and desolate, with some steam coming off the background.

Time

Since I do not have enough [but] briefly I’ll summarize beginning [ ]
spinning on a tilt [ ] below Earth’s rotational axis [ ] in search of water ice [ ] on the dual moons of Mars [ ] Phobos & Deimos.


Shot of the top half of a dolphin moving through water. The water is blue/green and the dolphin is a gray color.

Pod

"Was this your plan all along?” Toby asked one night, his chin on my chest. He still smelled faintly of fish, which was how we all smelled these days. “Stealing the dolphin to get Sophia in?”