Sublime

And next to him, Sadie felt herself diminish.

What, after all, is a video game’s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?

If anything, this felt more like Paris in 2005—a place where there was no shortage of legal protections and official goodwill, but where one wouldn’t be crazy to occasionally hide a yarmulke under a baseball hat. Yet the thought of explaining this was exhausting too, and also beside the point.

On the verge of disappearing, she turned, and she ran back to him. “Sam!” she said. “Do you still game?”

For those who had been awake enough, there had never been any dream at all. Born in Poland in 1896, Glatshteyn was a secular man, and American enough to have enrolled in law school at New York University.

finding the untouched core of herself,

“No one wants to die,” said Becka. “But some people don’t want to live in any of the ways that are allowed.”

leery,