I was texting everyone I knew the shortest horror story in the world (“Knock” written by Frederic Brown: “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”) and wondering why no one mentioned the fact that it could have been a woman. As soon as I got off the phone with this kid (an unexpected and truly lovely phone call that lasted for about an hour as he traveled across two state lines) I sent it to him, thinking he could meditate on that before he drifted off. And his response is “Must have been a woman then. Lucky guy.” 

aspiration #37:

pixie bitch