You do not want your wings. You twist your back toward the mirror, tweeze, pull. Grey stalks at your shoulder blades, slow intimate slide of extraction, the satisfying stretch and snap of your skin as it clings and then surrenders. You do not want these wings. They are—will become—not the luminous white of a snowy […]
Bruce and Bok Choy, the crooning lovebirds, wish to be alone with their Kleenex box at the base of their cage. They make Liz feel like the third wheel while she sips her morning coffee. They are all flutter and feather and strips of People Magazine ripped into jagged ribbons and stuffed into Bok Choy’s […]
Posted (12:04 AM) Sorry for the grainy photo, my phone camera isn’t the best. I was working on my Econ paper when this moth landed on my laptop. I may have emitted a very dignified and high-pitched shout because this sucker is huge. I think it’s around three inches long and maybe five across with […]
Someone must have fucked up at the zoo, Rhodri thinks when he wakes up one morning and sees a flamingo standing on his recycling bin. There’s a flamingo on my bin, he texts his friend Lowri. Bullshitter, she texts back, flamingoes being a sight uncommon in the grey-green winding valleys of South Wales. But before […]
The world is constantly in a state of flux. Sometimes our surroundings evolve slowly, generation after generation chipping away at a problem to achieve a longterm solution—or a lasting problem. But sometimes, the world as we know it seems to change almost overnight. Psychologists have studied how humans deal with change, but the vast majority […]