Sublime

When he satisfied himself that he had imagined the spoken “hey” that, upon reflection, he heard more in his head than with his ears, he returned to his work and was none the wiser. The defective round thus passed unnoticed, was packaged, sold through a law enforcement catalogue eight months later and finally distributed to Detective Lawrence

I see this girl, Vanden, for a while, who paints my futon frame black and who stopped seeing me because she said she saw “a spider the size of Norman Mailer” in my bathroom. I didn’t ask her who Norman Mailer was, and I didn’t ask her to come back.

gingerly

Beneath these giants, way down in the understory, her own body seems freakishly small, like one of those acorn-people she made in childhood.

temporality,

He knows only that these people—the tiny few immune to consensual reality—have a secret he needs to understand.

Each of the world’s seven hundred and fifty species of Ficus has its own unique wasp tailored to fertilize it.