USER EXPERIENCE
A true story
May 15, 20236 min read
UBER TEACHER
Letter to Blair
Apr 2, 20236 min read
ANNELID DINE-IN
Kurl : Ice ages and droughts, tornadoes and floods, they're all absurd chaos.
Mar 15, 20233 min read
TADZIMAS
Quinita: Typhoid is rampant.
Jan 1, 202310 min read
I'D LIKE A SALOON
Karl: I’d like to start a saloon. Yarl: Oh really? Karl: Oh yes. I've got it all sorted out. Yarl: I bet. Karl: The main floor is...
Oct 26, 20221 min read
HÔPITAL Y
A short story by Lew Roeg-Roeg, recomposed and enShortened further still for modern sensibilities– It was a year. 2021, I think. France,...
Oct 1, 20228 min read
POLAR BEAR SNOW JOB
The job would be monitoring a threatened polar bear population. Most of us new recruits were well-educated and comfortable out of doors...
Sep 20, 20225 min read
DE-FAULT
Sometimes you fall apart. Sometimes you pass out. And you can break down or log off just any old time. Apparently. This is what the...
Sep 5, 20222 min read
VARIATIONS
Margaret's grandmother, Florence, and great-uncle, Noel, built a small cedar cabin on a little lake in British Columbia’s Interior back...
Jul 1, 20222 min read
HUNGER
[ Preemptive proviso: This story is not actually about Climate Change ] "I believe I've discovered that the cause of climate change and...
Apr 21, 20215 min read
WOLF!
"Wolf!" cried the little shepherd boy. "WOLF!" "There ain't no wolf," barked the townsfolk. "Go away!" booed some folks. "There's no...
Aug 7, 20205 min read
WHY SHOULD IT SEEM?
PERSON 1: If we trust our senses, and just use our basic intelligence, we can tell that we live in a big, big world. Like, if I climb a...
Sep 25, 20194 min read
MOVING
Before we could get keys and move in, our new landlord said he needed to have a plumber come. But he said he'd contact us shortly, as...
Apr 9, 20196 min read
THE SHÖNBRUNN MIRACLE
By Kale McDunitt May 29th, 2022 Austria's Schönbrunn Zoo, the world's oldest continuously operating zoo, went public today with a secret...
Mar 25, 20196 min read
FROM NOTHING, NOTHING COMES
“What's up?” asks Perk, imagining Gram must be a little depressed, though certain as ever he remains unable to read the man. Cocking his...
Feb 11, 20193 min read
ATTACK OF THE MARAUDING POST-APOCALYPTIC ZOMBIE CHIMPS
“I don’t know, it’s like how people don’t seem to think about how things are made or what they’re for.” “They do, don’t they?” “No. I...
Dec 6, 20186 min read
WORKED
As a child, Liam worked evenings across town in a barber shop as a soap boy lathering rough faces. At thirteen he dropped out of school...
Jul 5, 20181 min read
KIDNAPPINGS
One afternoon in Kampala I was out running errands when I decided to hail a boda-boda (a motorcycle taxi and the most common public...
Apr 15, 20186 min read
