The babysitter was unalarmed at the impulse to somehow bite off the baby’s head. His mouth was too small, and sometimes he wanted to do this to puppies and seals, so the sensation was familiar. Also, one morning, a while back, a girl the babysitter knew for a short time had said she wanted to […]
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Ryan Effgen: The Pirate’s Life for Me
“This one’s good,” the girl slurs at me. I try to look interested, which is somehow easier with the eye-patch on. “What kind of socks does a pirate wear?” “Hmm. I give up,” I say. I’m in no mood. It’s dark and noisy and I’m trying to remember a time when I didn’t feel so […]
Eugenia Chao: A Bowl of the Real Thing
Wan, bowl; Jen, real; her name was, literally, a bowl of the real thing. From the first day of junior high school she sat in the last row. A hundred and sixty five centimeters; tall enough to be a model in Taiwan; at thirteen she was the size of an adult, the rest of the […]