Work by Michelle Filippini
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Temporal Relativism
Posted in Gossip!, October 2009
I have been amused of late by the abundance of twenty-somethings prefacing what they’re about to say with, “Back in the day...” As I recently asked some friends (none of them twenty-somethings), What day are they referring to—when they were in utero? So we started to make up our own (as them): “Back in the [...]
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Freak Learning
Posted in Gossip!, September 2009
Has anyone else noticed that A&E, The Learning Channel, National Geographic and their ilk have become the go-to channels for shows on, well, freaks? Forget The Bachelor; I wanna see the Man Who Looks Like a Tree, or the Girl Who Cries Blood, or the Woman Who Hoards Food. They’re like the modern-day version of [...]
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Entropy
Posted in Nonfiction, September 2009
“When I get down there, I find my parents in their master bathroom. My mother is trying to coax my father out of the bathroom back into bed. The smell of fear and urine are in the air and it’s hard to breathe. My mother says, “Look, Michelle is here,” and I can see my father trying to get his mind around what that means.”
