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Year: 2012

  • A Hole

    A breakup isn’t just physical separation from a person. It’s cutting off the opportunity to form new memories together, and to refresh old ones. Memories are half of who we are, so when we form a lot of them together we literally become a part of one another. When we stop forming them, it changes…

  • The Top Ten Words That Have Lost Their Innocence

    Remember when we were young? We were fancy, free, and fancy-free. Back then, words meant what they meant. Now that we’re a little older, we’ve lost our innocence. The most innocuous words are now charged with meaning. Here are some such words—words that I can’t hear without giggling, ironically, like a school girl. Erect Facial…

  • Double Book Review: Books With Weird Titles Edition: Wool and Draculas

    Here are two books I’ve read recently, with not much in common other than having weird titles and being released directly to digital. Wool, by Hugh Howey Wool is the first in a long series of books about wool about people living in a mostly-underground silo after some sort of apocalypse makes the outside world…