ADDITIONAL REQUIRED READINGS

a collection of short stories that are intended to accompany Malignant: a novel.

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WATCH

People.

Watching.

I stare across the campus lawn at the bookstore. The window wall reflects a pathetic goodbye between a mother and son framed like a movie set. Freshmen move across the street to the bus stop absorbed in headphones that make a musical from the mundane. A woman in black smokes at the corner also watching the sitcom of silence like a detail. 

No laugh track. No applause sign. No obvious audience.