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“This year so far, I had said, Hello, Goodbye, Do you have change for twenty dollars, Where is the bathroom, and I love you. I had meant every word.”
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Gary Indiana’s Art of Fiction, unlocked from the archive by Natalie Shapero.
“So that nowhere home is / Still ever on the way.”
“The dating app has engineered what one might call an Enneagrammatical system of bookish star signs.”
“I wondered briefly what fear was. Where on earth did it come from?”
“I had entered the bridge as my destination in the app on my iPhone but the phone led me here, to a parking lot and a sign, large, that reads, WELCOME TO ERVING on one side and, on the other, GREAT PLACE TO LIVE.”
"My work made sense when I was drawing schematics and performing calculations, but understanding people and talking to them was admittedly not a skill I possessed.”