April 2011
2 posts
Colliding plates
“Jesus. We just evacuated the building. Earthquake.” “What?! Are you okay my love?” “Everybody is gold. It was only a 5.4.” “Did you save anybody? I hope so.” “Nothing that heroic, I fear!” “Well at least everyone is okay. Are you going back to work tomorrow or do you get a day off?” “This is Jakarta. We’ll...
Apr 12th
Just kidding!
I have a friend whose idea of an April Fool’s joke was to tell me her brother died in a freak accident. Later in the day she informs her boyfriend—who was sitting behind the steering wheel of a moving vehicle—that she is pregnant. The muscles in his arms go limp and the hulking tonnage of steel swerves violently into another lane, nearly killing them both. Tomorrow I am going to...
Apr 3rd
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