How I Learned to Hate in Ohio

by David Stuart MacLean

Jesus Christ, how many questions were there?

“Is that why you teach history?” I asked, trying to make Gary laugh. “Cause you’ve got no idea about the future?”

There was an interview with a novelist named Kathy Acker in which she stated that she’d written her last novel “with a dildo in her cunt” the entire time. This left me very confused about the writing process.

I snatched a wine cooler from her. It was fruity with a little alcohol burn. Like a Popsicle that had gone bad.

I think this will be the last generation raised on screens. We’ll hit a tipping point and people will turn away from the TV screen and actually talk to the person in the room.