It is not quite light but not quite dark out, medium orange, when you and your friends, who are eleven years old, who are past curfew, which is streetlights, bike into a grass field that stings against your bare legs.

Cut Legs and Coffee Smell

Anything is vegan at Taco Bell if you substitute the meat with beans. Oat milk is the most environmentally-friendly dairy replacement we’ve got, but it is terrible for your skin. Can we ever have it all? 

Telling the Truth

In harvesting her eggs, a sturgeon is sliced from jaw to tail, her pink and full organs are splayed out on the wrong side of her grey skin onto the reflective silver table;

Sympathy Pains

She met her boyfriend in the parking lot behind the beach and did it there. They sat in her car, quiet. Only the waves made sound outside. 

Shadows in the Shape of Jellyfish

I watch Arrival and wonder if I’d like to have known that you were going to die, with The Before, During, and After imprinted into my memory entirely non-sequentially, like it had always been there and my only duty was to experience it,

Using Nonlinear Orthography, the Heptapods from Arrival Tell Me You Will Die

A bird hit her window the day after her son died. The flat thunk and explosion of reddish feathers startled her. 

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