She was sick, sick of being wanted, and wanted out. A story. — Shirley was attending a satellite reception for the annual Health Insurance Institute of America convention. She skittered through the crowd like a pebble on a sheet of water. People acted like it was a big privilege to be there. Her perspective? Not so much. She had been sick for days…

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When wish fulfillment runs off the rails — “The Veldt” is the lead-off story in Ray Bradbury’s collection The Illustrated Man. 72 years ago, Ray Bradbury imagined a dystopian America rife with technological conveniences by way of domestic microcosm: a nuclear family comfortably ensconced in a cutting-edge house. …

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a poem — The inspiration for this poem was listening to “Sad Professor” by R.E.M. while commuting home from work. dark mud slop shoulders the silver stream, bent trees stuck, brambles clumped like sad professors. the liquid mirrors their fears slivers the glen ambiguously as blackbirds cut a brazen sky after rainfall. on…

Comparing digital audio versions of a classic Dylan album — After Bob Dylan’s July 1966 motorcycle accident, he retreated into obscurity. Nobody knew what he was up to, really. Rumors abounded. A little over a year later, he was back in a Columbia recording studio in Nashville. The sessions took three days. …

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