FLASH
Content warning: sexual violence
(A Collaboration with Predictive Text)
FICTION
I discover one morning that if I delay my cup of coffee, I feel high. Although the only drug I’ve tried is pot—and really it just made me sleepy—I think this must mirror the idealized experience: the daze, the calm, emotions padded as if swathed in bubble wrap.
MEMOIR
The first rule is to listen. This is a game of imagination, so players don’t simply move plastic tokens—no, they create unique characters with personalities and rich histories. The man explaining this to me on New Year’s Eve, for instance, is an academic Wizard.
POETRY
Wedding, welding — it’s all a slow-and-stop machine. Ignition is the easy bit. You know, sockets oiled, batteries replete as a rose with bees.
