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Haunted Harambe: A Millennial Ghost Story
“I have a friend who saw his ghost.”
“Whose ghost?”
“Harambe’s.”
“You have a friend who saw the ghost of a dead gorilla?”
“Well, felt his ghost anyway. Fe
Full Bloom, Part II
(View the previous episode here)
Tuesday
When the bullethound shuttle pulled into the parking lot behind the staging area, people were already in the midst of giving a sh
About to Blow
Beginning of phone transcripts for 1-800-XXX-XXXX on date 11/20/2017
Call #1
(Operator): Hi, this is Marie, how are you doing this morning?
(Caller): Not
And John Adams Wrote …
In March of this year, while the Republican Primary was still ongoing, Mitt Romney gave a speech condemning Donald Trump and pleading with his party’s voters to select essentia
Full Bloom, Part I
WATCH CLIP: “Intervention”
INTERVENTION
Monday
“Ok, Vantrice,” I said, wheezing as I exhaled the way my therapist had showed me, “You have five minutes.”
“Five minutes?!
We Were Germany
How can you write poetry on my wall?
you can’t write love
when you raped the world
We were Germany
annihilators
sinking Europe with our poisons
and
rotting hatred
W
The Comedy Beyond Hope
With apologies to Dante Alighieri, the saints, the penitent, and all of the damned.
I
Dante Dreams of a Return to Hell
Somewhere in his home in Florence there is a scrap of
Suicides of Men I Never Knew
1
Memories of an 84 Year Old Co-Worker
They were together 18 years, and never married.
One night, after they had both been drinking, they had a fight.
He told her he was goin
Traumatic Brain Injury
for Keith Lamont Scott & Brentley Vinson
after the fall
he sometimes sees things
that are not there.
the book becomes a gun;
the gun becomes a book.
he cannot distingui
Storm Roof
these boys are all the same: the bowl cut the soft chin the skinny arms under the thrift shop jacket the aspergers gaze (not quite at the camera, not quite at you) in the one pho