Panda Dancing
This is a story about the purpose of the world. It is 1991. Sydney meets Michael in a coffee shop. Soon they are talking about their work. Michael is an accountant. Sydney breeds pandas. “Pandas?”...
View ArticleThe Birth of Persephone (I/III)
It is 1335 BCE. The sun is bright and virile in the sky. Demeter is giving birth. She is at the very end of her labor. Atropos and Clotho are her midwives. There is a pushing and a slapping and a...
View Article(Not all the way better) The Passion of the Joy Thing
The joy thing is shaped like a fuzzy barrel: white, fluffy, and stout. A cowboy hat is canted on its head. A trenchcoat flutters about it. Its deelyboppers wobble. “. . . it is an embarrassment to...
View ArticleGood and True and Noble (II/II)
The history continues; and from the lens there suspires a nimbus of great joy. “We are here,” says Pentheus, for they are on the beach. He points out into the water. He says, “There: you can see the...
View ArticleSuch a Strange and Funny Image
Sometimes the plague paralyzes instead of killing. Leila’s mistake had been letting the child into her house. He had been coughing and shivering as he’d delivered her mail. But she had not thought it...
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