Month: May 2026
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Shumatsu Papa
I went for a walk last Sunday afternoon and witnessed a man in a driveway trying to summon his Hyundai Ioniq out of his garage with an app. His wife and son were on the lawn, hugging each other and laughing at him with the specific giddy energy reserved for moments when a piece of…
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selvi akka’s tomato plant
there is a tomato plantbehind selvi akka’s buildinggrowing out of an old blue paint bucketsplit down one sidelike somebody meant to throw it awayand forgot halfway throughselvi akka says she never planted itselvi akka also saysilaiyaraaja once ate bajjifrom her cousin’s tea stall in kodambakkamso you can believe what you wantevery yearright after the first…
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1.618 (Approximately)
Here is a secret about photographs. The most important tool in a photographer’s kit is not the camera. It is the crop. I have taken a great many photographs in my life, and I am fairly certain I have made more crops than clicks. The photograph arrives first. The decision comes later. You drag the…
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The Jar Under the Apple Tree
The hook was at the exact height of the average adult human skull, which is the kind of thing you only notice once. Many years ago, I worked in an office in a downtown I will not name, in a building whose interior architectural decisions had been made by people who I can only assume…
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