Our toaster is gone.

It doesn't change the world. It changes me.

...she felt the fish there, hovering in her current, their mouths miming silent conversations.

November 24, 2025   Greetings from the Wrap Party,   This week will mark an important event in our country. (Pause here and hold your breath for dramatic effect.)   Thursday is Thanksgiving, ostensibly a day when we celebrate the relocation of homeless people by American Patriots. (I use the word ‘ostensibly’ because I am confident no one will look up the definition this early in the essay.)  Thanksgiving is an important event, but it is only part of the big picture. It is, s

Among all those stories, there were heroes. My brother Douglas was one of them.