Embracing one’s inner old man is an often neglected opportunity and privilege.
Care
The secret to what makes robots such good listeners is that they don’t have to listen.
Search
We don’t need our brains anymore, except for to buy things. We also don’t need our bodies. I’ve already forgotten what I knew this morning. Some new information happened. Lots of details were explained. I think I saw a graph. Who are my shorts? Is that my body? Why?
Shuck
Are we ever not just a collection of random parts?
Murder
This story is an allegory. Is this story an allegory? Are we living in a story? Who are we? Why am I on fire?
Intuit
This story isn’t all that much fun, but it is short, just like life!
Liberate
There is so much to unlearn about what we want and why and when and who. (This story is in the 2019 Spring/Summer issue of Epiphany Magazine. Go order a copy if you long to see what the words look like on a page.)
Sing
Sometimes you find yourself in situations where you feel extremely unqualified to carry out a task, like singing someone’s final song. You at least wish you had ironed your shirt, but you didn’t. (This story is in the 2019 Spring/Summer issue of Epiphany Magazine. Go order a copy.)
Roam
It is a nice thing when friends find each other out in the choppy seas of loneliness, having so much in common, while having so little in common. Also, monkeys!
Troll
When someone invites you into their beard, keep in mind that you may never find your way back out.
Stop
Every filthy boring neglected rest area has a rich history which is largely unknown to its daily urinaters.
Chew
Being married to a man is probably nobody’s idea of a vacation.
Counsel
High school was a place where bad people grew into new people who were sometimes also still bad people.
Dazzle
Somebody is going to need to jazz up the afternoon session of this sales conference or I’m going to have to do it myself.
Fish
An inside look into the future of romantic luncheons.
Notice
A high number of lives include a dad, or dad shapes, or at a minimum something in the shadows urging us to cut our hair.
Invent
Sometimes we believe it, and we feel it, and we express it with our bodies, until we are forcibly hospitalized.
Cop
Before you wash the officer, you need to ask yourself, am I following the cleaning protocol?
Recount
It’s hard to get a fair trial these days with all the clowns and quarterbacks vying for selfies.
Make
Life is full of sandwiches full of meats full of additives full of smells.