Sorry to divert from the format this week, but I have a new short story that is on theme – so I’d like to point you in that direction!
It’s a warm Sunday afternoon when I notice myself moving in. Through the window I watch me, in my favourite exercise gear, carrying bags and directing movers across the building’s central courtyard. My husband uses a trolley to shift boxes, his navy cap shielding his face from the sun. Our son, just old enough to help, wheels suitcases along the concrete path, while our daughter runs back and forth, carrying messages between us. In this way, my family moves into the apartment three doors down from ours, then goes about our daily life.
The full story, ‘The Complex’, is in Electric Literature.
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A Quick Recommendation
Another story in Joyland this week – this time by Muriel Leung. It’s a slightly longer story, building a world and introducing questions and rules in gradual shifts that I didn’t expect when I first started reading.
Shin never thought he would long for the days of molting until it was no longer a possibility. Shin is dead—and a roach at that—so his loneliness quite often feels doubled.
It features a ghost cockroach, but is about much more than that, and it’s called ‘To Molt And To Love You’.
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