Monsters in the House
What did you get for your fifth birthday?
JAKE
The Standard of Care
The germ of my idea spawned last Christmas when our Aunt Muriel, who lived in Florida and looked like a rotisserie chicken, gave my brother a set of marbles.
It's cold, can you
Stop. At the sidewalk? Shall we sit down here for a while,
True Scale
Then: a star—someone else’s sun—crashes through the gate of our Oort Cloud and rolls towards us, and it’s just like it was at the planetarium, on that elementary school field trip where I was introduced to the claustrophobia of watching a tiny yellow dot—
a bad gay guard
they keep saying i’m a bad guy
your kiss
hot on the heels of katy perry’s /
late-2000s bisexual anthem
Custer's Last Stand
Even the bartenders, two burly guys with dark curly hair and mustaches—they look like brothers—seem bored stiff.