The summer Masha found the bear was extraordinary for many reasons. The whole country has been preparing for it for the last four years, since Moscow beat Los Angeles in the summer Olympics bid. The 1980 Games were the first to be held in Eastern European, Slavic, socialist country. It…
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She sleeps through the crash. Her living ship, having failed to resist the pull of this uncharted world, still succeeds in protecting her within the spiral labyrinths of its bowels. Barely living: its last cry for help lost in vacuum; its heart burnt out on entry. As its life force…
Cold Spring I made it right on time. The train doors shut, and the conductor came down the aisle, his ticket punch clicking like a medieval torture device. I offered my ticket, he punched a hole in it—what is it today, a moon? a fire hydrant? there are six hundred…
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Emily Xiǎo Campbell had just completed a two hour swimming practice and was blow-drying her hair without giving much thought to her reflection in the locker room mirror (because she wasn’t one of those girls who had to check themselves out every five seconds). She was momentarily distracted by a…