Reading At six or seven hundred parts per million, the air in here is dreadful but sustains life. Regular jiggering of organic functions is needed to keep the ratio from ballooning to something deadly. To make a long story short, after an alarmingly high reading Mstislav discovered a mound of rotting mangrove fronds under a seemingly healthy hillock of wheatgrass-a camouflaged nightmare of poison-leaching compost. Endgame for us could be that simple, that foolish. 3 July 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam Read “Lostronaut” by Jonathan Lethem (a short story which has become part of Chronic City). Read More