Work by R.B. Moreno

  1. Excerpts from “Made in China,” a forthcoming essay on human hair:

    Posted in Gossip!, October 2009

    DOUGH CONDITIONERS reads the fine print on a bright blue box of Texas Garlic Toast. It’s made by Great Value, or GV (“When Quality Counts”). Wal-Mart, the product’s dis­trib­u­tor, describes GV as the country’s largest food brand. Peering closer at the ingre­di­ents listed under dough con­di­tion­ers, which fall just before sugar but after yeast, I [...]

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  2. Don’t Jump Off This Thing, You Don’t Have Wings

    Posted in Nonfiction, September 2009

    For about 15 mil­lion in today’s dol­lars, men erected a breath­tak­ing, thousand-ton span of steel longer than the Gorge is deep, held aloft by gal­va­nized wires capa­ble of sup­port­ing loads equal to the bridge’s weight. Half a cen­tury later, after the first BASE (Buildings, Antennas, Spans, Earth) jumps from tow­ers of rock in California’s Yosemite National Park had begun to lose their nov­elty, the minds of a pecu­liar new breed of para­chutist began to fix­ate on Cañon City...”

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