TONGUES “Do you want to touch tongues?” Ella asked me. We sat underneath one of the fold-out plastic tables boasting boxes of frosted Dunkin Donuts, instant coffee and hot chocolate packets, and plas...

 Consider this hypothetical scenario: mosquitoes carrying an infection with a 30-percent mortality rate have taken over, and you are the only one authorized to release a secret weapon that will comple...

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At a business meeting, a woman walks my mom into an office and introduces her dog, Chelsea, a black-haired Chihuahua with slightly less desperate eyes than the breed generally sports. The dog is posed...

Say No to Marriage According to relationship guru magazine, Cosmopolitan, one in four women will turn down a marriage proposal in their lifetime. Citing a survey administered by travel research rm Sup...

I got lost trying to go see what it’s like to get lost in an American mall—the hallmark of teen movies, the corndogs, the sanitized yet unsanitary play spaces. Malls are confusing, and it is not an ac...

Sometimes I lie on the bed and my body lists towards your softer side and I pretend that it is your magnetism and not gravity that is pulling me towards you. We are lying in bed but are two different ...