The other morning, I glanced at the cover of the Red Eye, our city's premier free magapaper, the number one reading material choice among morning commute El riders. Though I refuse to ever pick up the paper, it's never hard to steal glances of the larger print leads; copies are always dominoing their way around the red line car I occupy like a wave ( Read more... )

"People say that moving is one of the most traumatic experiences a person can go through," the bartender, an acerbic woman named Judith, is telling Ben and Ammo. She's apparently overheard something about their being in the process of relocating and, interested in this, more so than Ben, more so than Ammo, more so than the drunk woman who is passed ( Read more... )

i just have to say that zoe trope is seriously one of my favorite people in the entire world. she gives me all sorts of fun things to eat (gummi pizza and japanese cookie things), read (susannah breslin microbooks), and play with (this live journal!), and though she won't finish reading my book, i still heart her scads and scads.