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They were the kind of people who had been through a lot of shit together and were trying,
every day, to make that into a strength rather than a weakness.
jake wolff, the history of living forever
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Exclusion by Vaidhy Mahalingam
When Velu, a rodent researcher and reluctant romantic, is invited in for chai by a beautiful Tamil professor, his plan to rid her home of mice becomes an unexpected lesson in what it means to be truly trapped, or truly welcome.
zoom healing by sigrid wilson
Still reeling from a devastating loss, Mike sits down for a Zoom healing course armed with skepticism about “spiritual bullshit” until four strangers and a piece of music from his childhood remind him what compassion actually feels like.
marty and deborah by Ric Nudell
Marty thought announcing his divorce to the neighbors would bring casseroles and sympathy. Instead it brought Belle’s feminist blog, Earl’s condominium broadside, his mother’s hunger strike at B’nai Emet, and a Fencelines news van.
kids will be skeletons by J.D. Strunk
Eight-year-old Lucas chose his skeleton costume for Halloween without much thought until an overheard conversation about death and a gravestone bearing his family name make him realize, in the middle of a candy haul, that skeletons are very, very real.
Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
Fredric Jameson, “Future City,” New Left Review
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Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also.
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