Doxology: A Novel

by Nell Zink

The Triffids in turn reminded her of The Genocides, a novella by Tom Disch in which alien farmers sow the unfortunate Earth with giant sugarcane.

“Splash 1” by the 13th Floor Elevators.

Flora’s self-evident vulnerability made her realize she’d been a fascist mom after all.

Uhh

They considered clever signs symptomatic. All present were delighted with one another. It was the heyday of the SMS and profile-driven online dating, when people got a lot of practice formulating zingy ad copy.

The parties are Scylla and Charybdis, and we’re sailing our boat of nature on capitalism like we think it’s water. We need to turn it around and get back to dry land. God, that was the metaphor of the century. I should get a prize.”