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It’s a Thursday. I pull the Tower tarot card. A tower, struck by lightning, collapses. Cats fall out to their potential deaths. (The characters in my t…
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I’m excited about something that might happen soon. It probably won’t, but maybe it will. But I can’t tell you what it is. I know. I know. I’m telling …
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The secret to staying young is feeling young (I keep telling my old cat this but she’s blind and wants to nap) So I’m trying to do the splits But I ima…
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I came back home to a nervous cat with a cloudy pupil. It was hard to tell at first. It looked as if her eye caught the light. But it was the same from…
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(but it missed.)
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Did you know Jeff Bezos went to space? It was twelve days ago, so perhaps you’ve forgotten. Perhaps it never happened.
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but sometimes it’s nice to watch yourself heal. To cut a staleish loaf of bread, have the knife slip, and open a tiny slice of your finger instead. Wat…
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In the backyard of my now-former place, two robins have been building a nest for weeks. 
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Cicadas wait seventeen years to crawl out of the ground, rub their butts together, and die. I waited twenty-five days after filling out an apartment ap…
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Ever feel like nothing happens, then everything happens? In my month’s break from Substack, everything has happened. The cicadas arrived. Everyone (tha…
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It’s Mother’s Day, and I just have a couple brief things to share. I have a new short story published in The Forge called “One Day Closer.” It was insp…
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A vaccine and a new story
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