Vacancies
“He’s overdoing it. He always overdoes it. It is just Halloween.”
this
Jersey Shore
Maybe Thanksgiving?
The Scream
let’s-make-my-family-flinchgravity’s-got-me-now
just
Feng Shui
Alyssa Martino is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, VICE, Narratively, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
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