Nicholas Grider is the author of the story collection Misadventure, published in Feb. 2014 by A Strange Object, and his work has appeared or is forthcoming from Conjunctions, Caketrain, DIAGRAM, The Collagist, and elsewhere, and he also makes sexy, medium-sized abstract paintings.
in and out of being there but still alert enough to lean forward when falling, failure means November is pocket change and hostile music, advances in technology have produced you a new meaning and a new tongue to go with it, the tongue says never mind, oh, whoops, I thought, uh, I was going, what I was trying to say was, I thought Choose Life was still on the menu? Side dish of cold grease, take it from here, brothers and sisters
you live alone so you can fall over a lot and you carry a camera to record decorous blur and you say this: it might sound like elocution but it’s really a life lesson, what you learn is to back away, waving your hands, and then spin into a run, and then run, and then run, and when you hear the sirens calling they become you