SHORT ITEMS

A green mist of new leaves rose along the abrupt slope of Morningside Avenue.

Once upon a time we were supposed to pity the Soviet Bloc for their empty store shelves, left barren by their refusal to participate in consumer capitalism. Now American consumer capitalism has produced something beyond empty shelves: shelves filled with manufactured nothingness.

We wanted to make sure to get a 1.6 gallon tank, because one issue on which I do basically agree with the previous president of the United States is the inadequacy of weak-flushing water-saving toilets.

Crowley's first client is a RIAA front group.

WILL YOU SERIOUSLY

All over the county, for 17 and 34 and 51 years, people had been putting cul de sac developments and Panera Bread parking lots on top of them.

Now nobody’s accusing anybody of plagiarism, that’s just Grammarly dot com being Grammarly dot com.

I'd looked at this pattern before, over and over, but not properly seen it: the pavement looked like a window screen—maybe it always had? Maybe I had been looking at it all my life without seeing it.

I had been dreading the second-shot side effects yet also, honestly, kind of looking forward to them.

Mortal Wombat!

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HMM WEEKLY proudly enters the realm of NFTs with a three-part artistic meditation on financial or technological hope

HMM WEEKLY proudly enters the realm of NFTs with a three-part artistic meditation on financial or technological hope