Jason Lee Norman

The photo shows the close-up text of a story in white print on a dark background. Next to the can is the front of another can that reads Nitro Coffee Stout. The text of the story: Grit She shoved her hand into the pot. The soil around the snake plant was moist and clung to her fingers. She felt it cake under her nails. She scooped it up and pushed it into her mouth, emitting a barely audible mmm as she chewed. She swallowed, then ran her tongue over her teeth, collecting errant bits of grime. “Hon?” she heard Don call. She crammed in another small handful, then said, “Yeah?” “My mom texted. Pasta salad ok for the Baby-Q?” It’s what he named the pre-baby party after she said she didn’t like the term “shower.” “Yep!” She took a swig from her water bottle, wiped her lips with the sleeve of her cardigan, and hurried to the kitchen to wash her hands. Geophagia, that’s what the doctor called the dirt-eating. It wasn’t that rare, but it also wasn’t good. Potential parasites. Toxins. Really no benefits, the doc said, much less judgmentally than she expected. But you should stop. Don didn’t know what she was doing. He’d think it was gross. He wouldn’t understand that it’s what the baby craved. It’s what their special, almost-didn’t-happen, but thriving nonetheless baby needed to survive this bonkers world. Grit. - Kim Mannix

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Does anyone else get pissed off when they see the geese just blatantly flying in a direction other than south? Like, you're just adding hours to your journey guys!

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Dog Day Afternoon is 50 years old? Holy shit!

I could use one or two.

6 white peonies and their shaggy leaves taken from above on a brown table. Next, the poem in the magazine, which reads: Work/Life A man coaxes a dresser to stand up from a schematic on his workbench. A woman snips peonies. She rights their heavy heads in a jar on her dining room table. What makes them beautiful is too much for them to bear. And possibly the most direct route to upright is the miracle of corn and soybeans standing in ripples on this Pennsylvania land. Three draft horses move as one to wake the earth, hitching gear jangling as if to say, "Get up, take up your mat, and walk."

"A woman snips peonies.
She rights their heavy heads
in a jar on her dining room table."

--from "Work/Life" which ran in
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Way to speak truth to power!

Finally, a pope who probably knows who the Smashing Pumpkins are

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I'm not saying that Fogo de Chão isn't a good Mother's Day present. I'm just saying that I'm not currently within driving distance of a Fogo de Chão.

This person wrote Jair Bolsonaro as a reference on their resume.

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The crazy twist in that one Black Mirror episode was the more overtime that guy worked, the less money he seemed to have.