I need something else, I don’t know what.

IN MUNICH LATE BY IVANOV REYEZ 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 92

I must decide my future. I’m past the dream, she thought. I’m going to be gone. 

The baby, crying.

I bought diapers and clothes and toys and bouncers and bottles and everything I could think of to make that little one happy when he got here. And she took him. She took the baby, a month old.

SHE DROVE WEST BY BRANDY MCKENZIE 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSU92

Gaudi had no money. He used whatever he could find, clapped it together, so one part of a balcony was this shape and the other entirely different. Imperfect perfection.

PERFECT BY JEFF WAINWRIGHT  34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 92

Imperfect perfection.

We’re going to have a party for him but he won’t be there.

DEATH OF A BOND TRADER BY JONATHAN BERZER 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 92

The children are jumping around a ping-pong table out back. We’re gonna miss Sean, says Lee. He was a great guy. Great dad, great family man.

I’m not devastated. Should I be devastated?

MORE HUMAN THAN EVER BY SOPHIE WELCH 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 92

She went from being this terrifying figure in my life to someone helpless and human. I wasn’t sure what to do, what to say.