November 27, 2023
“Borscht!”
The above quote is attributable to our supervisor (sobriquet “the zookeeper”), who was yelling after me a second time. What an unfortunate state of things, you will say, to be named after Ukrainian soup. But you see, that’s hardly the case at all. My name is Borscht (pronounced Bors – the c, h, and t are all silent), and I was born to and raised by two fine Swedish émigrés in the fine city of Helsinki.
November 23, 2023
“It makes me feel like a porn star sometimes,” She said with a strained, flat tone. There weren’t any tears in quite a while, but there was a sense of limbo, a slight upgrade from the river of graceless and greasy stick pics for some people. Sometimes She wondered if she should talk to her therapist about what life was like after being assigned as a symbol for something radical that needed a slide show to come with it,
November 20, 2023
The definition of a novel is up for debate, the definition is not definite, but proposed definitions often include the idea that a novel is writing of a certain length. People also say that a novel is prose, there are even a few extremists who demand that a novel has characters and plot. Extremism is also a term up for debate, but generally extremism is considered abnormal and bad, or abnormal and therefore bad,
November 17, 2023
Yesterday it happened again. I didn’t do anything bad this time. Nothing substantive, anyway. No calls for revolution or drinking on the job or sex with students. In France such practices land you promotions and book deals. It was because of my dossier. Wasn’t above board, they said. Some documents are forged they said. Something about my primary employer not existing as is required under French law. Dossier not kosher,