She doesn’t always know what the night will bring, but she’s always excited. Anticipating dreams that take her to places that hang faintly on the pathways and structures of her real world. The street she grew up on, but greener, so green, so lush. The houses look like cardboard in the moonlight, and she doesn’t […]
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A professor invents a better version of raw human emotion: Swallowing forests
Tired. That’s what she was feeling as she packed up her books and papers to head home. The gnawing persistence of responsibility and life wouldn’t let her rest, she felt her muscles weighing her down, gravity settling on her. How else are you supposed to feel when you can’t cry, she wondered. The loss of […]
The life of a high school teacher depends on one particular lettuce
She wakes up in a fog, as part of every day’s ritual of wishing she could find a school that started later, that catered to the night owls. We want to teach and get a good night’s sleep, she thinks. But she does the rote morning ritual, rolling out of bed into a warm and […]
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