Anthologies 2023: On Work
Use for anthologies only — as a way to sort them onto the appropriate landing pages.
The Year of Getting Better
“It’s the year of getting better,” her mother said as she walked into the room. It was Thora’s second hospital stay of the year.
Electrician’s Litany
The Opera House power vault / blows and knocks out the local grid / on our first day of work together.
How Do You Make It Work?
I’m writing this much later than I should be, in part, because I’ve just had another birthday, and as I age, I become more reluctant to do more than one job.
To Pasture
The court had decided I was the most logical choice for the bull’s care. I was sufficiently neutral as a production assistant, and I’d already been tasked with managing him at the studio.
Excerpts from The Work Is Done When We Are Dead
We don't know. / Despite thousands of years spent / conceptualizing moralities of power, / theorizing hierarchies / or their abolition...
DEI, Bitch
Can everyone hear and see me okay? No? Oh, I was on mute, let me just ... There we go.
On Employability
"Why is it that the more transsexual I get, the more employable I feel?"
Babydogs Do Not Work/SERVICE ANIMAL
At the height of the pandemic, I became a new kind of laborer: a student-teacher, a strange, two-faced role.
