horrified credit union members gaped through the window still clutching their signed checks and between manicured or grease-stained nails. It was a strange time for credit unions. They didn't know if they still wanted to be credit unions or if…

classes and continuing to attend just frequently enough that the professors could feel like I was just there to personally insult them by not participating. And I had these headaches, and these hot flashes that were, mysterious. I really, like…

went through broke all that. To tell you that I cared when you left, that I've cared this whole eleven years that we haven't spoke, that would be a lie. It would be kinder to let the separation stand unbridged. To have my own silent moment of…

When I tried to get sober we moved in together again. Soon enough I was stealing weed from him and playing his XBOX in the basement all day instead of working. When he came home at night I wrote noise music upstairs. On my fourth birthday Mrs…

Before Mrs. Wilson's I had been to two other daycares. I remember the owner of one got kicked by a horse. She came in and showed us her thigh, a black bruise the size of a dinner plate. At another, a kind childcare worker gave me a Mickey and…

There was this television show called Nature. One episode showed a man raising a bear cub to a juvenile bear. When it came time to release the bear into the wild, the man set a weak bear trap, designed to hurt, but not critically injure. He called…

cleanse those holiday earworms right tf outta yer brain. guaranteed to make you forget everything currently on yer mind.