Other Writing
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Changing Station
“But all of a sudden, there’s a fragile bundle in our bedroom, starved and wailing, gasifed, cramped, tired, snuffling, needy. From slumbering cherub to shrieking drama queen, you’ve become the loudest in the household. Now an unnamed terror prickles me – the possibility that I will do everything wrong. I’ve helped bring this remarkable person into the world and am humbled by a sudden realization of the stakes – how much I now have to lose and just how vulnerable I am.”
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Still Life, Rotting Fruit
“Look, I’m not exactly sure where to begin, so let’s get right to the part where I’m wearing the baggy clown outfit and Chuckles the Doberman is ravenously licking my nuts.”
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Law and Odor
In a San Francisco apartment building, a permeating and bizarrely astringent odor prompts an investigation into the olfactory. “Law and Odor” both explores and celebrates our mysterious sense of smell. What realm of the sensorium does smell occupy and what is its primal and visceral link in the brain to memory? Should odor be regulated by government? As the smell in the apartment unit intensifies and its occupants continue to suffer, the narrator is forced to take action while reflecting deeply on the intriguing sense of smell.