dad 

teach me how to get that bald shiny

just like you. and there we’ll be 

two scalps approaching bald 

“the ghosts drag me by my hair and their hands”

“It's a funny feeling that you get when you find out somebody set you on fire.”

“We get off work past midnight but we’ll just load up on 7-11 coffee, Taco Bell, and Adderall, and we’ll just go.”

For Mary South, nurturing is just another way for people to connect, an effort her characters rarely accomplish. These stories focus so intently on the space between people that one could forget anyone ever succeeds in uniting.

Amy Bonnaffons:“I really liked the idea that even the people who literally carry out the business of death and of transition from this world to the next have no idea what they’re doing.”

I laugh too hard, for too long. Maybe owing to the fumes. Or perhaps owing to what my lawyer said. That this lawsuit could go for up to a year. Or longer even. 

As the only mammals that can fly, they are often 
imagined as something not-quite-mammal, 
a species dancing in the liminal space
between bird and rodent.

What is a ghost? Is it an apparition that appears at night to frighten us? Is it a spirit at unrest, refusing to pass on to the next life until it settles a score with our world?