the villagers are watchful in their booths at boston market the boys living on sulfur and talking about feelings and memory the united states is the collective process of demanding feelings and a certain memory i would live on synthetics but i hate fragility Lonely and afraid, my women sing, there is no father in me they talk about…

A car’s tires thu-thunk over the rubbery black trip wire at the oil change, triggering a fat bell, and a group of girls in silver leotards are reflected like spatters of sap in its windows— liquidine, firm, gleaming. It’s a Game Day; they are the girls chosen to split in tempo to the brass band, heel of a front foot sliding over Astro-Turf…

Sabrina Li: In “Legends of the Seoul Dogs,” I noticed that the form of the story is that of the Christian Catechism. I found this structure particularly interesting, since it’s used as an educational tool to teach children about Christianity, and I found that particularly relevant to the boy’s growth and relationship to religion and his father…