Demeter Seeks Persephone in the Year 2210

In  by July 29, 2022
1. OVERWORLD We, the chorus, welcome you to today’s stage, a patch in the rocky landscape once known as Attica. Close your eyes and inhale the subtle sweetness of sun-warmed grass. Hear the soft rustle of dresses, giggling young women whose whispers counterpoint the chirping birds. Soon you realize there’s no variation in the birdsong, […]

The Desert in Me

In  by April 24, 2020
I was going to be a desert. They’d designed this recliner for conductivity, not comfort. I lay down, feeling cold alloy through my shift because it was either “rehabilitation” or relocation. “Where did they assign you for Environment Week?” the guard asked. “I don’t remember.” It was twenty years ago. You turn eighteen, and they […]
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