The Form

Open by explaining why your situation is different. Push off from this if it helps: a wasp in a car.

Right, so — the wasp thing. I was driving, wasp comes up from nowhere near the pedal, I swerve, clip the curb outside the building, and by the time I've parked properly and stopped shaking the window for submissions had…

Open by explaining why your situation is different. Push off from this if it helps: fog.

The fog out here isn’t weather. It’s bureaucratic static. Thick, damp, and completely opaque. I tried to file the transfer last Tuesday, but the clerk just stared through me like I was glass. Everyone’s doing it. The…