severe, metastasizing consequences
"Severe, Metastasizing Consequences," June 2, 2022 (#153)
title from "Another Risk in Overturning Roe" by Jia Tolentino (February 20, 2022)
The Brothers Torres by Coert Voorhees (2008)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880)
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat (2007)
My Brother's Place by Pat Lawler (1978)
Severe, Metastasizing Consequences
Every time we get into a car, we trust everybody else on the road.
You must swear on your eternal salvation. Else I shan’t go
to the living room whenever his friends came by. Later, the trips
don't want to be responsible for turning you to a life of crime.
Now the damn thing looks like a melted scoop of rainbow
discussions in society, though you don’t believe your own
protest as he fired up the ignition. Before he became sick, I might
persuade him to give me one thousand dollars? I thought about
that, about teachers secretly wanting to get with their favorite
sort of crazy humor, at times spiteful and at times cringing, and
the task of identifying one, recognizing the transition from the living to
each side of the front step and maybe some climbing roses going up,
would be kind of satisfying, like proof that we actually got somewhere
knowing why. Softly and noiselessly, step by step, he approached
a grocer or an undertaker. Because we all must eat and we all must die,
I decided I would do it the next day when I got home from school.
From Creepshow (1982)
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