are the ones who quit smoking, but still always keep a pack of cigarettes close at hand. You can try to break a habit by squinching your eyes tight, or by trying to remove every trace of one thing from your life, but you haven’t fully cured the addiction, the idea goes, until you are [...]

They forbid us from ever speaking to each other again. They listen to our cell phones, read our email, and monitor the paths we travel through the city. We have to find other ways to communicate.
On Twitter you respond to questions from people who aren’t on your friends list. @longdist: I still feel the same [...]

Finally the search was over, and the scientists and astronauts all returned to Earth. “Sorry,” they told the large crowd that had begun to gather as their ship landed. “It turns out there’s no life anywhere else in the universe.”
“Are you sure?” someone called out from the crowd.
“Yes,” one of the scientists replied. “We checked.”
The [...]

After the war started, and we lost the internet, we stopped writing on our blogs, and went back to writing in our notebooks.
But we didn’t change what we wrote, or how we wrote, we only changed where we wrote it.
We still wrote about what our days were like, and what we’d had to eat, and [...]

A play in one act, in which two miscreants debate both the merits of an honest man’s belongings, and the talents of his artistic friend.
INT: A CAR parked in a DRIVEWAY at NIGHT
Two men sit in the front seats of the car. DARNELLE is sitting in the driver’s seat, looking at CDs. WYATT is sitting [...]