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Lust III
“See, there just aren’t that many kinds of sex,” she said, offering, as proof, a kink consent worksheet she’d been sent by a friend, an Excel document…
Aug 29, 2023
Love III
The parsimonious night warden knows exactly how little fuel the fire needs to keep burning. Sometimes he pities the embers. Ash-streaked, panting with…
Aug 17, 2023
Lust II
Initially he put himself as “heteroflexible” on the app, then changed it to “pansexual,” and finally, with the relief of slipping into familiar…
Aug 10, 2023
May 2023
Love II
The question on everyone’s lips, it seems, is not how easy it is to fall in love, but how easy it is to avoid it. Insufficiently tempted, we’ve opted en…
May 25, 2023
Lust I
It’s two things at least, linked but distinct, one the physical need, the carnal insistence, resembling the hollowness that forms in the mouth when one…
May 20, 2023
Love I
One of the ongoing debates in the ecumenical councils of their relationship was whether he’d be opportunistic in securing her affection during a…
May 13, 2023
February 2023
Animals
High up in the roof of the Berlin State Library, over the football-field-sized reading room where I come to consume silence free of charge, there reside…
Feb 21, 2023
January 2023
Disease
As a child whenever I had a cold they tied a fuming wreath of fried garlic around my throat, wrapped in ancient rags, a flaking flyblown corpse of a…
Jan 16, 2023
November 2022
Honesty
Honesty is either very funny, or else very grave. The former sentiment is the ambit of lovers, the latter of husbands. She was definitely of the first…
Nov 25, 2022
Food
Many traditional cultures subsist on narrow fare; the Mbuti eat mostly honey during the rainy season, while the Masai eat only meat, milk, and blood…
Nov 7, 2022
October 2022
Agency
“Will” is out. We don’t like “will” anymore. It’s too pure, too peremptory, the province of gods and their imitators: divine will, the will to power…
Oct 26, 2022
Stuff
In a marketplace in Mombasa two salesmen, having maneuvered me in such a way as to make exit difficult, subjected me to the most asperous of hard sells…
Oct 9, 2022
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