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Amelia

Amelia

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Amelia
Amelia
Sep 19, 2017 · 2 min read

Cat Lady in a Box

It starts with a man named Erwin who had a deep distrust of cats.

They’re indisputably shifty animals, right? You never know where you stand with them.

So when the time came for Erwin to describe the eerie volatility of quantum states, a cat was…

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Amelia
Amelia
Jul 25, 2017 · 4 min read

Our Mother, Trenitalia

We lived on the trains. Literally.

We swung from those scratchy blue curtains like Tarzans in our boxy jungle and fenced with curled up evening editions of La Corriere Della Sera swiped from napping businessmen. When we were lucky enough to land a compartment…

Amelia
Amelia
Jul 17, 2017 · 1 min read

Floods

Dear Moon

We blame you for floods

— Warsan Shire

It will happen tonight.

Everyone says my due date is still years away, but a mother knows. I have given birth thousands of times before.

Amelia
Amelia
Jul 16, 2017 · 2 min read

Lost & Found

We lost the map on Tenth Avenue, but found what we were looking for in the storm drain in front of the 7–11.

Bowery was slick and sticky, coated in a thin film of August. The sun burned the backs of our ears and the thing huddled in the shadows, letting the slow underground drip…

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Amelia
Amelia
Jul 11, 2017 · 5 min read

Herbert Jablonski

Herbert Jablonski is eating sand.

He stuffs it into his mouth ravenously, swallowing hard, tasting blood as the grains cut into the soft tissue of his throat. As he forces down the dry grit, he stares unblinkingly across the restaurant at the couple seated in the…

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