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W. L. Caelum

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On Food, Time, and Other Things Humans Get Wrong

Weekly Contest #340

My name is Dave. I am a dog, which means I understand the universe far better than humans do. This is not arrogance. This is observation. Let’s take food, for example. Humans think food is something that happens at “mealtimes.” They put it in bowls, look at clocks, and say unhinged things like, “You just ate,” or “Dinner isn’t for another hour.” This is adorable, but incorrect. Food is not an event. Food is a state of being. It is a constant, like gravity, or the urge to bark at absolutely nothing at 2:17 a.m. Food exists at all times. You s...

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Weekly Contest #339

Mara taped the paper to the refrigerator because she needed something that did not change.It was a child's drawing—three stick figures and a sun that took up half the sky. The figures were labeled in careful, blocky handwriting that belonged to her sister's seven-year-old: MOM DAD BABY. The baby was an oval with a smiling line for a mouth and legs that pointed in opposite directions, as if it were mid-celebration. The sun had been colored past the edges, yellow wax pressed hard enough to leave grooves in the paper beneath.Mara pressed the ta...

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