2022-04-23 15:03
geraldI know I've been using a lot of WFH time but I checked with our ops team — technically there isn't a set limit on how much you can takedoug smorin"within reason" is the limitgera… Read More
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2022-04-02 19:15
"You're trying to get away? It's no use! I too was trying to get away, to ride away, to move to Lviv, or to Kyiv, to anywhere else. But you can't get away. There's a moment when cars stop dr… Read More
2022-03-31 03:50
If each of us drew our own body as if by dictation from our own internal perspective, we would produce a gallery of monsters!— from The Sexual Life of Catherine M., by Catherine M… Read More
2022-03-26 18:34
I'd gone to France for work, to a party, in a castle decked out in a way I'd never seen. I'd had a fair amount to drink, and I latched onto someone who worked for an important newspaper, unl… Read More
2022-03-20 22:46
My adolescence as a reader became, without a break, a long and unhappy apprenticeship as an author.The geese have returned. They've brought the rains. I am living amid a labyrinth of bo… Read More
2022-03-14 03:26
It was her Father who told her that highly educated people did nothing but complain, and that those in poverty, on the other hand, could stand more, much more, or maybe they felt less. He al… Read More
2022-03-03 05:28
Sprawled across Jackson Ave is a larger-than-life lady, screaming her "I don't give a fuck" in chemical pink. We come up on her from behind; a slight torque in her repose, I can't see her ha… Read More
2022-02-10 03:34
Clara's body heaved a little, assuming the shape of a soundless sigh. Currents of emotion moved through the room.My mother moved us to a subdivision when I was 11, a year or two before Rush… Read More
2022-01-26 03:34
Sensei continued to stare at my arm, all the way down to my palm. His eyes on my palm, he murmured something about me not having any wit lines, even though I had several affair lines. The ve… Read More
2022-01-24 13:50
Our love was so strong that it felt like a presence in the communal apartment, as if it were another tenant. It had an amorphous shape and weird density; it was less dense than an actual obj… Read More
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