I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
It was on page nine, Metro section, tucked below the fold like something shameful. A boy—thirteen—had gone missing. “Misprocessed,” the paper said, as if he were a faulty upload or a form with a smudge. He vanished
There is a crack in everything
Long before the Dutch arrived with their dikes and deeds. Before the grid was drawn and the sewer laid. Before the men in boots came to measure madness with clipboards and good intentions
I Was Born by the River
The snake found us before the book did. Before the myth. Before the title. We were just looking for an apartment. It was 2002. Jan and I were living…