When you awoke this morning, you were a boy. But tonight you’ll retire to your racecar bed a grown-ass man with hair on his chest. Assuming you don’t singe it off first ha ha.

in her sleepless room with the shades drawn and a bowlful of neon peach rings. Blue TV light is radioactive, but after years of exposure, Jenny’s skin has grown a thick, radio-proof layer. It is gummy to the touch. 

August 3 is most well known in the United States as The Day When Nothing Happened. In the United Kingdom and the European Union and parts of Eastern Europe, it is also known as Nothing Day. The Day has never been recognized for unique remembrance in Canada, as it has never been determined to be remarkable. 

The Virgin girls are not virgins. The Virgin girls are not virgins—not yet. They are here to redo themselves and reassemble their youth.

“I’m tired of having created the world,” said the boy with the snow-soft hair. 

Though he was, as a child on the cusp of thirteen, the youngest of the group, he was also the eldest.

I worked with Soraya before she was famous – back in ’93 when she was 14 years old, 6 foot 2 and size 0 –  with ankles and wrists so snappable, so daddy-long-legged, she looked like she could crawl up a wall and live on the ceiling.

Somewhere along the coast, a man buys a house swollen with light – on the abandoned street, but it’s all he can afford. His agent mentions thestunning view, proximity to cliffs. Some maids have left the home smelling of lavender & bleach.

Nothing seemed off until I was fourteen years old, eating handfuls of soil straight from the bag. My mom caught me one day with brown flecks in my braces and called the doctor.