Just beyond the fortified walls and past a small cafe, the shopkeeper unlocked his door, pulled up the steel door protecting the glass, and took his customary seat on his favorite stool behind the counter. He was born into this business and now at the age of eighty, looking back on his life lived mostly … Continue reading Volume XIX – July 2022
Does money measure everything? Is it the arbiter of success, genius, some innate quality that defines self-worth? Is money worship itself a uniquely American phenomenon? I’m curious because I’ve recently heard someone call Elon Musk the smartest person alive. An idea that never occurred to me because it’s the kind of assertion that would elicit … Continue reading Money
A group of heavily armed men move snake-like in military formation along a commercial strip of the city. A crowd forms on the other side of the street behind cover and watches the action unfold through their phones. Another group of heavily armed men enters view, coming up the street, moving directly into the cross-hairs … Continue reading 15 Minutes of Gun Fame
He sat in his well-appointed dressing room and stared through himself in the mirror, not seeing his imperfect facial features and flabby body under his clothes, but instead the idealized version of himself concocted out of thin air, made into mythology, and sold to the masses as a genuine article of American entrepeneurship and social … Continue reading The Grifter
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