Shorter Letter
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My home is on my back and my back is broken so I lay aside the dusty trail and leak oil, I leak oil onto the bright asphalt. The child runs out the doo…
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I am bad at piano. My fingers rest on two keys. The high keys get in the way. When I don’t want them to. Sometimes my piano is so bad. Earplugs. Compla…
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Four wide mouth Ball jars sat on my desk. I asked the doctor how do these fit into my story and she withdrew a pail of lavender bricks from the back ro…
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God’s master plan, no free will among creatures, you see this is the exact same idea stated different ways. Different centers of gravity. The all, the …
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Sal don’t look when he makes sandwiches. Sal watches the television, The Moth, in the corner, black and white tv, The Moth, and Sal don’t watch with vo…
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A reference, an allusion, some kind of sharp detail of their time together. She expected she would appear in his writing eventually. The letter, she op…
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The mules were drooling, the sign, the driver said, we approached the summit. The trail wound back through the trees and when the mules proved correct …
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Ten times ten is twenty and a hundred minus a hundred is twelve. These were small enchanting phrases, to borrow from an old Russian, uttered in my ear …
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I try to stay quiet in the library. When the urge to talk gathers inside me I think of neighboring prime numbers. I try to imagine even prime numbers. …
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You do not trick an algorithm, you explore it. So said an anonymous commenter in response to a piece I published in The Atlantic. The idea: an algorith…
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Did a machine write this story? There are blue algorithms that part along your walls. Come down from the heavens. In little saucepans. You can take lit…
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Dear Mom, Here is the fisrt letter on my new typewriter. So far—a line in I’m having a great time though I’ve already made a nasty type and forgot to c…
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