I’m addicted to game-shows. One of the first things to pop into my head every morning is me standing face-to-face on a stage with Bob Barker, the fucking Elvis Presley of game show hosts. Every day I hear good ol’ … Continued
(Buffalo, NY: Sunnyoutside, 2015) You know that guy in your office? You know the one I’m talking about. That guy. The one that is always the last person to get in and the first to leave. The one that disappears … Continued
(New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) It’s strange how you can see the same things day after day and not give them a second thought. I ride a train into work every day. I keep my head down and … Continued
(New York, NY: Black Balloon Publishing, 2014) Butterflies. That’s what they call that feeling of dread you experience deep down in the pit of your stomach before doing something that scares you, or after you’ve done something wrong. Tiny little explosions … Continued
Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa (New York, NY: Other Press, 2014) It’s peculiar how ghosts will bump into you when you are least expecting them to. How they’ll blindside you and drag you back to places long … Continued