When the frozen body is in proximity to a chaotic body it will release a chemical piddle that will waft toward the nearest open window mixing oxygen, ammonia, and frozen impulse–the latter being the most combustible within an enclosed space–forming a smog that will stick

to synthetic fibers and leave the thawed person susceptible to culture rot.

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Finalist for the 2019 Carolyn Bush Award

I imagined I had willed every person into existence to feel,

in essence, the superforce of imaginary dad’s astral fisting.

Generally taken with spoiled potential, the Constitutional-Conservative-Free-Spirit would later tell all of her best friends that this was when her “feelings of getting real really got real.”