Fiction

After six days burning, the Mesa Fire merged with the Jamul Fire, and the air quality got so bad—something over 300 AQI, I think—that the county let everyone out of school before lunch, the expectation being that we’d go home and watch TV in front of the HEPA filters we’d become accustomed to since—I dunno, since those climate terrorists blew up the fucking Colorado River Aqueduct and collapsed the San Vincente Reservoir.

We wear Saran Wrap cloaks because real invisibility cloaks are too expensive.

Last week, the office photocopier gained sentience.