Joe's knuckles bled, the result of inflation. Tonya was some sort of greedy little Tinker Bell wannabe. She even had the wings to go along with it. She wore them every single day. The whole idiotic ... [+]
JANUARY 2020. 7234 miles from Chicago, China reports the first death from a novel coronavirus. There is no evidence it can spread among humans. I'm commuting to school and two women on the train are talking about a coworker. "She never stops talking." "She's always going on about her gym." "She's exactly like my son. The little guy laughs and giggles but deep down I know he's a bad person." There's a brief silence. The car screeches and the fluorescent lights flicker as if the train itself is revolving against the comparison. The general quality that defines the L is, in a word, shamelessness.