FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR

From A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra. “I don’t understand.” Deshi shook her head. Her romantic advice was worth a foreigner’s ransom, and here she was, giving it freely to a girl who couldn’t appreciate the hard-earned wisdom. “Just stay away from oncologists, okay?” she said, and led the girl to the waiting room.Continue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR”

THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHT

From Douglas Coupland’s Escaping the superfuture. Lately I’ve been experiencing a new temporal sensation that’s odd to articulate, but I do think is shared by most people. It’s this: until recently, the future was always something out there up ahead of us, something to anticipate or dread, but it was always away from the present. ButContinue reading “THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHT”