Issue 110: 14 May 2020

Scrolling

By Laura Grace Weldon   Two penguin chicks are the only survivors of a 40,000 bird Antarctic colony. I imagine fuzzy hatchlings chirping for food till silent, scroll on to read about a dog taught to talk with an adaptive device. Stella, a mixed breed, already uses 29 words although her choices don’t include “why.” […]

Long Time Listener

By H. A. Eugene   Greetings HTW gang! First off I want to say thanks to Gabe, Mack, and your producer, the lovely Vicky! I am a fan of the podcast and have been a member of the How’s That Work? gang for almost longer than I can remember! As proof, I submit to you […]

White for Suffrage, Red for Riots

By Emily Knapp   Crack. watch as we fracture. shards of a broken union used as weapons and knives (get out) (we don’t want you) heavy hearts as women burn in India and reds/yellows/greys paint the streets of Paris. We are all fighting we are all mad stealing back our stars and ripping our stripes […]

Bird Shit on Leaves

By Mark Grinyer   The white-speckled green of bird-shit on leaves painted through weeks of days without rain marks favored platforms under canopies of trees where hawks cannot spy them but where they can see the movements of voters through wind-gusts and rain that soak these havens and wash shit away fertilizing forests with generations […]