If only ants could laugh, then they would be having the last laugh, but they’re too busy to laugh, especially since they can’t.
Think
Some guys are just those guys who aren’t going to get it, and then they probably won’t get it all over again, until they finally marry their mother.
Promise
In the future there will be no past. It will be merged with the present, and our historical tour guides will have gorgeous voices and also sell and administer our toiletries.
Tire
Christmas is a holiday in December that happens to people.
Stride
This episode is drunk on bad rhymes. Enter at own risk.
Want
In this episode we learn the Spanish word for car. We also witness an intensely muted heart beating openly and alone.
Incinerate
A discreet ritual between two adults. Confiscated materials set aflame. School employees need their hidden moments just like the rest of us.
Absorb
There is an end. It’s always made it easier to pretend there isn’t. But now is when we need to start stopping.
Walk
When you are lost in the jungle your preference would be to not be lost, but short of that you’d settle for a jungle pharmacy to pick up a salve for that itching in your nether region.
Police
Some things are legal, until they aren't.
Destroy
There is legend of a human who once enjoyed puberty. This is not that legend.
(A version of this story was originally published by Picador in the anthology, The Book of Men, the proceeds of which benefit Narrative4, a non-profit organization that uses story-exchanges to cultivate empathy and break barriers. )
Diet
In this country, we are drowning in false choices and sclerotic deliciousness. This week’s story mines our demise for several minutes of uproarious hijinks.
Bend
None of our stories are the same, except for the ending.
Question
Duke Ellington should be on the dollar bill by now. That's not what this story is about, however. It's about making the most of a limited dating pool and life’s cruel bio-mechanical disconnections.
Drift
Do all parking lots connect eventually?
Judge
A lot of stuff happens, and it’s all bad.
Cook
There are times when we must overcome the visual so that we might better focus on the victual.
Wave
Our lives are only moments shuffled inside our heads while we die. This episode definitely proves whatever that last sentence means, probably.
Remember
If you don't promise to keep a journal today nobody will believe that we once wore mittens in November.
Doctor
Sometimes it is difficult to avoid creative differences when making art with your preferred medical professional.