The Ouroboros within: stem cells
The biology of self-sustaining systems
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Volume 68 Issue 7
I’m forced to do my chemistry lab for eternity
It’s Groundhog Day but with titrations
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This is not a secret
I call it a mercy— my buried pretense, my unspoken lie, but a guilty conscience is a gunshot wound— it never really heals. It’s not a secret if the truth would break her, so I let the bullet lodge inside my ribs, rusting– latent, lethal, it waits. It’s not a secret. I wrap her in
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Thirst drinking saltwater
It begins with the word, of the mouth that shaped it, the breath that cups it, and the body that makes it I was a pile of flesh that refreshes itself every 10 years goes on living, building a dam, for the rain that beats my body all night on the parts that hurt, that
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Oraphim
The sun bursts from displacement – Entropy begins. Allow it. Rings of rings of of rings of of rings of of eyes ablaze; interlocking. Thousands of pupils on an ever-spinning carousel, blessed with voluntary cataracts that hit only when they look into my own; (what is about to happen is of no in
Four fun facts about snakes
Deep in the coal mines of La Guajira, Colombia, students unearthed a skeleton of epic proportions. The gigantic fossils were initially thought to belong to a crocodilian. They were wrong. The fossils were the remnants of a snake—the largest snake to ever inhabit this earth: titanoboa. Estimated to be 42 to 43 feet long, the
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New faces in old places
“In the same way that the heart does not care which life it beats for, the city does not care who fulfils its various functions. When everyone who moves around the city today is dead, in a hundred and fifty years, say, the sound of people’s comings and goings, following the same old patterns, will
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