Technicalities
The legislation, intended to court religious votes, stated that a person could only end a pregnancy if they elected for a hysterectomy at the same time. The legislation also stated, in a separate paragraph, that a person could transfer any organ to any other person at any time. Capitalism saw these sentences as an opportunity. Transfer does not have to mean donate. Transfer can mean transaction. The unwanted wombs of those who wished to remain childless proved valuable to those who didn’t. Th...
Technicalities
The legislation, intended to court religious votes, stated that a person could only end a pregnancy if they elected for a hysterectomy at the same time. The legislation also stated, in a separate paragraph, that a person could transfer any organ to any other person at any time. Capitalism saw these sentences as an opportunity. Transfer does not have to mean donate. Transfer can mean transaction. The unwanted wombs of those who wished to remain childless proved valuable to those who didn’t. Th...
Hair of the Dog
He stretched and yawned. Nobody else was awake at ten on that New Year’s morning. He wandered to the confetti filled living room. Half-sipped drinks dryed in lipsticked glasses. He slurped up abandoned Manhattans, nibbled gin-soaked olives. He rolled in fallen streamers and gnawed on greasy party hats, flush with a feeling of giddy warmth. When his family finally roused, they found him growling defensively on the kitchen floor: head aching, stomach in horrid revolt. His master knelt to pet hi...
Hair of the Dog
He stretched and yawned. Nobody else was awake at ten on that New Year’s morning. He wandered to the confetti filled living room. Half-sipped drinks dryed in lipsticked glasses. He slurped up abandoned Manhattans, nibbled gin-soaked olives. He rolled in fallen streamers and gnawed on greasy party hats, flush with a feeling of giddy warmth. When his family finally roused, they found him growling defensively on the kitchen floor: head aching, stomach in horrid revolt. His master knelt to pet hi...
Value Messaging
The pharmaceutical company tested their optimized baby formula on the poorest populations. Nine years later, their data was stunning. The babies fattened on that patented elixir were phenomenally robust, stunningly brilliant, taller and more athletic than the experimental controls. But twenty years later, the results were less compelling. No matter how impressive the formula-fed children were in regards to cerebral ability or physicality, the social and economic standing of their parents dete...
Value Messaging
The pharmaceutical company tested their optimized baby formula on the poorest populations. Nine years later, their data was stunning. The babies fattened on that patented elixir were phenomenally robust, stunningly brilliant, taller and more athletic than the experimental controls. But twenty years later, the results were less compelling. No matter how impressive the formula-fed children were in regards to cerebral ability or physicality, the social and economic standing of their parents dete...
Offerings
One evening, the cat deposited a mouse onto his mother’s lap while she read the boy stories. “Don’t be shocked,” she said, “It’s just her way of earning my approval. She’s showing me the pests she’s gotten rid of for me.” His mother stroked the cat and later, nonchalantly dropped the stiff vermin into the garbage disposal. He heard his mother and father fighting again. His mother woke him the next morning, smiling despite two blackened eyes. When he dropped his father’s thumb into her lap and...
Offerings
One evening, the cat deposited a mouse onto his mother’s lap while she read the boy stories. “Don’t be shocked,” she said, “It’s just her way of earning my approval. She’s showing me the pests she’s gotten rid of for me.” His mother stroked the cat and later, nonchalantly dropped the stiff vermin into the garbage disposal. He heard his mother and father fighting again. His mother woke him the next morning, smiling despite two blackened eyes. When he dropped his father’s thumb into her lap and...
