Nineteen simians toiling on a proverb
Author Archive | Andrew Simpson
Mom’s Diner Delivers on Its Promise
Maternal cuisine cooked up with eerie authenticity
Name Dropping
A case of misplaced identities
The Memory of an Elephant
The perils of interspecies romance
Ayn Rand on Salon.com
Earth is a capitalist utopia, and nobody can figure out where Ayn Rand has gotten to
Vera Is Based on My First Girlfriend
When a story needs to tell its own story.
The Soul of a Poet
I have the soul of a poet. I bought it at a Sotheby’s auction. I can’t remember the poet’s name. I couldn’t afford a really famous poet.
My Moment of Greatness
Supposedly everybody has one moment of greatness. When you die and after they process you, it’s all anyone talks about. Complete strangers come up and ask what you did that was so great and then go on about what they did. That’s most of the afterlife, really: stories about how great people are.
Uphill Both Ways
None of us understood how or why but they said starting in September we’d have to walk uphill both ways to school. We didn’t like that. Not one bit. But there was little we could do. Us being kids and all.