Hell of a Book

by Jason Mott

Even as I turned and looked at him there in the bed, dying by centimeters, he was there on the screen, already dead. Somehow, he was dying and dead all at the same time. Schrödinger’s father.

In fact, if you want to get philosophical, we are already dead, somewhere down the timeline. Everyone is. We’re all just chasing after the moment when the timeline catches up to us and we blink out. So don’t waste any of this, for God’s sake!”

Americae excommunicatus!

And every Black parent in the history of this country has tried to stop that monster from swallowing them up and has failed at it. And every day they live with that.”