Two Peasants with a Glass of Wine, by David Teniers the Younger
Liquid Courage and trying magnesium for anxiety
by
Jia Yan Tan
November 22, 2024
Further considerations
Pilliwinks and The Boot and My Head is a Cat B Jug
By Joseph Long
Ain’t that done yet? Ain’t that done? Three words which, // if spoken too soon, sears itself upon // my balloon.
Goat in the Machine
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.
Any Other
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.