…found jani tapping her fingers. not because she wanted to, or was nervous. she simply thought it might make her look more interesting. toddi looked across the table with cheeks puffed (she always looked ridiculous when she smoked. the act made jani think of a child trying to hold their breath and then failing terribly) [...]

“do you love me?”
“of course. you know that.”
“i know. i know i know that …i just wish there was a way to be sure.”
“you can’t just take my word for it?”
“i can. i believe you. but, like a guarantee would be nice.”
“a guarantee? …how about if we wore like matching rings or something?”
“that’s a good [...]

i saw a dude a while ago who was asian, and he was also dressed like you would dress if you were going as an asian for halloween and you happened to be ferociously racist. like railroad-era asian, with the cone hat and the weird shoes. he didn’t have the bathrobe/karate uniform type kimono you’d [...]

the odds of running into a scrotum in public are fairly slim. the odds of seeing a child’s scrotum are even more minuscule. i’m aware that it says “child’s scrotum” on my website now, and i would gladly have shown a picture here if i would have had the good sense to document this monstrosity. [...]