The terrified revolutionaries binge on Netflix.
(nonfiction)
Category: Archive
I say aloud, I want to love.
I get pulled over for speeding.
(nonfiction)
Every day: a penguin story.
(nonfiction)
Before the virus, we would kiss in our kitchen after the kids left for school.
(nonfiction)
You were a good liar because you lied to yourself.
(nonfiction)
I answered phone calls from my mother every two hours, so she could “check your voice for corona.”
(nonfiction)
Cholera was raging in the middle of August.
(nonfiction)
I wanted to be in the mountains when it happened.
(nonfiction)
Every day they would wash all surfaces with carbolic soap.
(nonfiction)
A month will become a year.
(nonfiction)
If I come across someone I make sure I am the first to ask about the screams.
(nonfiction)
We hold our breath, if the road’s too narrow.
(nonfiction)
We take an image of your chest each day.
(nonfiction)
With ISIS defeated and the conflict in Syria dwindling, this should have been a bustling season.
(nonfiction)
When she tires of reading, she comes over to burp in my ear.
(nonfiction)
“I wonder where we go when we die,” Calvin once said to Hobbes.
(nonfiction)
So if Henry is neither in the woods, nor alone, what exactly, is he doing?
(The Loop)
The earthquake woke us on the sixth day of the pandemic.
(nonfiction)
Give me your germs
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Ritter and her companions rely on seals they shoot for survival.
(nonfiction)
They’re always baking, said The Stand Mixer.
(nonfiction)
Rural populations tend to have higher rates per capita of the elderly, disabled, and people with other health problems.
(nonfiction)
A sedative floods her veins
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You know the one we mean.
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So many notes on a violin resonate with open strings that I aim to make as many notes as possible luminous
(nonfiction)
When I borrowed his car, Rush Limbaugh’s scraping bass would erupt at full volume
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I tried folding up and taping a Siemens vacuum cleaner bag over my mouth and nose, something The Wirecutter said to use only under “desperate” circumstances.
(nonfiction)
There are only two things I can think about right now. One, a Carolina wren…
Width of a queen-size mattress: five feet
(nonfiction)
Last week, we had a grammar unit on expressing desires and regrets. I wish, we hope, if only.
(nonfiction)
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