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Since I got an ‘A’ on my Turing test, it doesn’t bother me that I can’t hear my hair growing at night.  Of course, I enjoyed the helicopter ride and the dog sledding, but the problem with my dead [...]

now this. I nearly faked my own death by electrocution. Sounded like a rearrange of the original epic techno, rock opera filibuster, by Whatshisname. Thank goodness for daylight savings time. [...]

It’s not your sting I fear, nor the frenzied crush of your yellow thrashing, but your faithless hoverings— nearer to me, than I am to myself— until, like the electricity of sudden shock, you flit [...]

I bolt awake, gulp the vacant moment. Outside, junk skyline, octopus metal in the twist distance, the good blinking of it, while lightning white cars slow-slither streets. Everything is an atom [...]

Read these instructions carefully, all the way through, at least once, before starting. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Unpack and identify all the parts listed. And the [...]

The waves’ teeth gnaw the shore. Eyes closed, I count my scales. At what point does a thing become itself and not itself? Starlight, always younger than its time, I am my own origin.   For [...]

  It seemed that their break-up had occurred as long ago as the Beatles’, but somehow they were still married: man and wife– still living in the same house. Janice hated Jim more than [...]

Of course, setting fire to birds is wrong. Even if everybody else is doing it. Anyway, you have to catch them first. A couple of times I nearly died in my sleep, but like that lady doctor said, [...]

I am my own equivalent. I’m named after myself. I’m someone who’s memorized a secret vocabulary to describe the future. I believe the world is alphabetical, that it’s moving unstoppably from A to [...]

Candy cigarette trembling in her haunted hand, adorable secrets loosely locked in that smiling sin vault, her giddy little-girl laugh track loops, like a busy signal when you phone the emergency [...]