Remember puddles?

 

For real for real

 

Is this how to flirting?

 

Intergenerational comparisons

 

This ridiculous thought enters my mind whenever I encounter youths. But in my defense, I'm full of microplastics.

The problem with kids these days is

 

Then vs now

Ugh, fine

Gerontological edibility

The lateness of the reply

The difference between

The feeling of age

Final preparations

"Well, I guess next time that will teach you to prepare for auditions, won't it?"

Being conscious

Guessing games

Mental Health

The problem was, no one could tell which eye was glass, an aesthetic prosthesis, and which was the functional one. One schoolyard rumor held that both were glass, and the man was one of those remarkable, totally blind individuals who manages to pass as a seeing person. Cynical observers speculated that the opposite was true, and both eyes were glassy and glazed over, but were the functioning eyeballs he had been born with so very long ago.

Teeth are optional

Mental Health

Imagine the slack, dry tongue lingering past the sparse assembly of grey teeth as it peruses lips and bristly upper lip stubble in search of crumbs. Consider the faint rasping sound this might make, against a backdrop of the slight passage of air past a heavily nodulated glottis and re-runs of game shows turned way down but never turned off.