People like when their opponents are sick and twisted. It’s easy to win an argument if your enemies are medically immoral people.
I started working on an essay about Fernando A. Flores’s Valleyesque in early May. Time got away from me—as time often does—and while I was working on the piece, the Uvalde school shooting
I have seen charlatans and I have seen television ministers, and I was beginning to get that vibe.
For four days in 1997 I was a beam of light. Fuck off if you don’t believe me: I lit shit up. Daniel Ladinsky says Hafiz says, “The oil in the lamp the sun burns come from forests you once were, from rich deposits you left [behind],” but he was probably speaking metaphorically.
In the old yard adjacent the high school sat a green-metal box that housed an emergency generator. At least we always said it did, though I’ve unlearned plenty since those days. Used to we’d hang
Larry Fondation is the author of four books, all of which display his mastery at quilting micro and short fictions to create large bodied tales.
His latest collection, Unintended
