“You shouldn’t try to base a pattern or a cycle on just two times. Maybe not even three, or five. Wait until it repeats and repeats some more, right? Then […]
Friday Links: Traveling Is Fun Edition
“…I was too young to know what was routine and what was unusual, and how everyone mixes up the two. The dead leave us with trash to pick up and […]
Friday Links: Summer Is Here Edition
“Hey. Look at me, man. How about we try living?” – Maya Williams, “Paul’s Response to His Jailer’s Attempted Suicide” My family’s already been to the beach twice—three times, if […]
Friday Links: Basketball, Queer Love, and Antifascism Edition
“Shooting around in the dark under the garage light…I always felt an intoxicating selfishness in knowing that I might wake the neighbors, but oh well, the ball was calling to […]
Friday Links: Sci-Fi That Isn’t White Cis Men Edition
“‘Stay strong,’ people from your past say, gripping me by the shoulder while trying to avoid eye contact with my shadow. But I don’t want to be strong, I want […]
Friday Links: Do You Know Anything About San Francisco? Edition
“We were wrong, of course, but…when you’re in love and fearing for your life, you accept any scaffolding upon which you can hang your fragile, contingent future.” – Jay Caspian […]
Friday Links: Watch Out For Foxes and Robots Edition
“Long ago, someone told me that I really shouldn’t get attached to humans. Nothing good comes of it since they detest our kind and kill us when they can. Yet […]
Friday Links: I’d Swim In A Sea Of Stories Even If It Was Poisoned Edition
“‘But why do you hate stories so much?’ Haroun blurted, feeing stunned. ‘Stories are fun…’ ‘The world, however, is not for Fun,’ Khattam-Shud replied. ‘The world is for Controlling.’”- Salman […]
Friday Links: Off Substack Edition
“Then she spotted his missing toe…ripped off her own left shoe…When Jack saw her extra pink toe, he swore he felt his missing one come back into its place.” – […]
Friday Links: Your Life Matters Because You're Living It Edition
“You know very well that the earth is filled with angels and djinn, partying like teenagers, spinning around like waterwheels. Come listen.” – Kaveh Akbar, ‘Martyr!’