Living

Step Son

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“For the first time,” writes Luke Babb on their experiences interacting with a divine child, “I’m starting to understand the benefit of getting to know kids – and I’m realizing how thoroughly they’re locked out of community.”

Living

Fear of Ghosts

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Telling Phyllis that I wasn’t Marion, that I didn’t know if a Marion had ever lived here – that was just a little sad. Every ghost that I’ve interacted with as a practitioner has been the same kind of conversation, mundane in the details and mystical only in the medium.

Living

Visibility

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These days, it often feels like I have two choices. I can be myself and in danger, or I can be invisible and hope that I am safe – that nobody notices, that I am lucky, that none of the aspects I can’t control (my health, my class, the city I live in) are the one that get me. It’s no kind of choice at all.

Living

Fallow

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He spins the card, bright with marigolds, to face me. “Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – what if you let yourself be sad?” Looking at the card is easier than looking at him. “I tried,” I say. “I should be done by now.”

Living

Butcher

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I am not sure whether someone who has not raised and slaughtered an animal that they will depend on for food can understand the fond, respectful distance I hold for everything but the dearest pets.