2018-07-11 20:51
[Actual lines from various profiles across several dating apps. A found poem of sorts.]Dear future girlfriend,Fantastically flawed human being looking for same.Two-time winner of Monopoly be… Read More
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2018-07-10 03:17
When he got home he found in the mailbox a postcard from Claire that had been sent from Bonifacio the preceding week. The news was out of date but the thoughtfulness pleased him. In fact it… Read More
2018-07-03 10:01
Navoi lived for four years in Samarkand: a city so deeply imbued with poetry that even the doctors wrote their medical treatises in verse. But before Navoi himself transformed the Old Uzbek… Read More
2018-06-30 03:22
Love SongHow shall I keep my soulfrom touching yours? How shall I lift it up beyond you to other things?Ah, I would gladly hide itin darkness with something lostin some silent foreign placet… Read More
2018-06-28 02:53
While it's true that, as Tolstoy observed, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and everyone on planet Earth, vale of tears that it is, is certainly entitled to the specificity of… Read More
2018-06-25 22:13
Is it because of some billowing whiteness within us, unsullied, inviolate, that our encounters with objects so pristine never fail to leave us moved?The White Book, by Han Kang, is a difficu… Read More
2018-06-18 01:54
— from The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, by Elif Batuman.This explains much Read More
2018-06-14 02:59
Incandescent bulbHer desk had been swept bare. There is only the incandescent bulb above it, giving off light and heat.All is still.The blind has not been lowered, and headlights can be seen… Read More
2018-06-11 03:50
The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu, takes its name from the problem of physics to do with gravitational systems and the predictability of the movement of those bodies. Finally I'm motivate… Read More
2018-06-01 12:13
Ruta once heard the life of the mushroom spawn. It was an underground rustling that sounded like a dull sigh, and then she could hear the gentle crackle of clumps of earth as the thread of t… Read More
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