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JAKE

A station wagon idling with its hood up, halfway hidden in the tall grass at the foreground.

Pickup Zone at Conestoga Mall

Everything is perfect except for her dad honking the horn

Notes being taken at an office, with two pairs of hands on a table laden with paperwork, pens, and laptops.

Work Crush

I wonder / do you think about that moment / in every meeting now / or did you feel none of it

A multicolor shag carpet in blue, white, red, orange, and light green, with a diamond-pattern weave.

Call & Response

kindly throttle me

Scrabble tiles spread on a board, with some at the center arranged to read STAY HOME.

Another Wave

I want to replace my windshield wipers / for real this time. Want a tiara for my trouble.

An Update to Your Order

An Update to Your Order

i'm so / gone for you still. so gone baby / but your 2 hashbrowns and / side of horseradish aren't.

Boy Crazy: The Reboot

Boy Crazy: The Reboot

where I do eyeliner, tall on wheels / eat hot pretzel, roll out to hold your / hot hand, hardwoods trembling our legs

Santa in a city street at night looking down.

Santa

I grabbed a cigarette with sweaty fingers and took my first drag in five years, eleven months and twelve days.