Rose McLarney

Animals never choose to end their lives because they cannot imagine narratives, and so cannot dread how they will continue, scientists say. Only those who can conceive of a future can want to give up a part in it.   So whales beaching themselves by the dozens, sick leader ...

As store windows are darkening and displays are taken down—that is when she walks home, tired. To take off her good shoes. To her husband. What to express about another such day? The given hand composes shopping lists. As if reminders were wanted, of the staples, every week ...