Identity Theory

01/07/2025

This week's cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.

16/06/2025

We brought snacks.

This week's cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.

08/06/2025

"The news did not report that the girls had been tied up, shot, and burnt, or that three of the bodies were found stacked on top of each other. That night, I knew only that four dead girls had been found in a yogurt shop a few miles from where I sat. Afterwards, when people asked me to babysit, I said no."

At age 15, I couldn’t lose my innocence fast enough.

08/06/2025

"The last vacation happened during the summer when it all fell apart—the summer when I had s*x with someone else for the first time in ten years, when we thought an open marriage was a good idea and not massively short-sighted, when your drinking reached a fever pitch as your depression held its hand, when I karmically got COVID and sprained my ankle. It was a capstone to a season of chaos and denial, a mess of my own doing."

The last vacation happened during the summer when it all fell apart—the summer when I had s*x with someone else for the first time in ten years.

06/05/2025

More micro.

I had hoped for more companions, but the freezing wind carries few.

06/05/2025

Micro.

You’d birth the words slowly, tasting them, a poet’s longing on your tongue.

21/04/2025

Micro from Elizabeth Fletcher: "Lullaby to the Old World Order"

Wires loosed, arch bar removed, time served, the neat fences of white-picket teeth no longer held her tongue.

21/04/2025

Micro Monday returns with "Homing" by Elena Zhang.

When I was pregnant I ate earth blood...

30/03/2025

"A week or so after passing a bill to make it easier
to fire librarians, the Alabama House of Representatives
passed another naming Little Bluestem the state grass."

—"Little Bluestem" by Pamela Manasco

What should we tell our children about it?