Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

by Eric LaRocca

what exactly is a family, if not a brotherhood and sisterhood afflicted with the same terminal disease?

“A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.”

At the end of each day, he used to ask me, “what have you done today to deserve your eyes?”

There’s a reason objects burn up when they fall to earth like gruesome angels – a reason other than the obvious one. Asteroids the size of armored cars narrow to mere pebbles in a matter of seconds. It’s because the planet is a carnivore and just wants to be fed. People want that as well. People like to eat other people. I spent so many years forgetting I had teeth, too.

I stepped out onto the street, daylight running its fingers through my hair as if it were a fire. That’s when I thought of you.