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“Machine” by Ahsan Butt

M watched himself wake in a mirror. His hair was gone and electrodes circled his skull, their wires stripped and dangling like witch hair . . .

I pass Elaine the banana bread. Oh, I’m sure she’s had a trying week, I tell her, clucking in sympathy, listening like the good friend I am . . .

All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle. —Nietzsche

Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts is a Best Book of 2017!

Have you ever wondered how the intricate figures and scenes from What Is Punk? and What Is Hip-Hop? are created?

Had I actually just dropped Leland? The red-winged blackbirds seemed to think so. . .

I have two daughters, both over the age of five. I never expected to raise boys . . .

You could tell by the way that they cleaned the guns that they’d been taught by the same person . . .