ICYMI, Part I

i feel like every single thing i did before reclaiming my title as a diarist was a serious injury to what i want to do as a writer. line breaks were broken bones slowing me down from grabbing the big belt which for me are volumes of anti-novels, serial essays, and notes.

The Fox and the Stork

There lived in a forest a fox and a stork who passed each other virtually every day and they both had that regional quirk where they were invariably civil and polite while secretly despising the other but they were also sensitive and neither wanted to be accused of being practitioners of the 'Seattle Freeze...'

Dance, Girl

You almost came out at your part-time job, planned a date with HR and everything, but you backed out at the last second. For a few weeks the shame had been trickling in slowly, but suddenly it started coming by the bucketful.

Liquidity

"I'm walking in our lake," another stated.  "The water comes to my ankles.  But I'm two hundred feet from the shore.  I'm supposed to be swimming."  Dying fish were nearby, laying on their sides, looking desperate and disappointed.

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