Still Life with Stoneware Jug and Pipe, by Jan Jansz van de Velde III
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November 28, 2024
By Jeff Blechle
This morning Yeorgi woke up in his backyard feeling a bruise on his lower back, convinced that stacked chairs and vodka were not his friends, nor was his wife, if he was being honest, or his goat Omar, whose pretense of loyalty clashed with Yeorgi’s trusting nature—and poor little Boots lying dead with light bulb fragments decorating her scant cleavage, well, she was no great pal either, always shoving him into hazardous, life-threatening tasks, always trying to get out of paying him, criticizing.
By Jia Yan Tan
but if that doesn’t work then call your mother
My parents knew that ten percent of my cells were missing an X-chromosome before I was born. I didn’t find out until I was nine.