Five Truths and Assorted Lies

Five things that are true: one, there is a spider in my apartment. He is fat and round like a ringmaster, brown and fuzzy. He has a huge web in the living room, between a tattered white stained glass window that is leaning, and the real window. Behind him is a view of the sections […]

Happy Monday

I had three job interviews in one day, which in some countries is punishment for shoplifting. I have never shoplifted. I am much too nervous to try. First I went down into the right subway, which felt wrong, crossed the street, down into the wrong one, then back across the street to the right one. […]

Fox Hunt

“If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” My tour guide told me I would love the fox. I […]

Faithful

I am a caterpillar in a cocoon (sure), living on a volcanically active zone (simmering), train off its tracks, sitting at a poker game with one guy who has a gun that might be loaded, and he might be in a bad mood. I think all things are bearable with metaphor. When I visited the […]