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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