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Josiah Duran

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Cold

When I was young, it was warmer. One-hundred and six, one-hundred and five, one-hundred and nine—the whole twelve-day forecast went on like that in the summers. They said you could cook an egg on a car dash. My parents never let me try that. Still, they did stretch and

Dressing Well

And How to Define It

Plomp, Plomp, Plomp

There's a cricket on the sidewalk. And there's a toad. Plomp—the weigh of the toad slaps the sidewalk; a dreadful boggy sound that must rattle the exoskeleton of the cricket. It twitches an antenna. Plomp, goes the toad, and the bug is in real danger.

Emotion Review – Limbic Rage

There is an anger that you nurse and tend, and which makes you feel wretched and powerful. This is not that anger. This is something that comes on you like an attack from behind. It makes you feel wretched, but it makes you feel weak; not because you lack the

The Beast in the Bed

A Real-Life Tale of Home-Invasion

Keeping Christmas

The time for Christmas is now!

Subway Talk

Trapped in a subway with the king of hot takes

They Have a Good Thing Going

A review of the filmed Merrily We Roll Along.

He Was the Real Thing

I have only known Tom Stoppard in a small way, through reading his plays, which I’ve never even seen performed. And yet, when I saw the retrospectives and obituaries last week, I felt that a pillar had been knocked out of our cultural temple as English speakers. Stoppard was

Emotion Review - Unrequited Love

Imagine that you’ve been eating bland food all your life and suddenly you discover salt. It’s a revolution. The miraculous little mineral makes everything it touches better. How did you ever live without it? But imagine that this particular salt you’ve discovered triggers a craving. You put