“Post A Pic” by Emily Sinclair

A short story by alum Emily Sinclair (fiction, ’15), appears at Monkeybicycle:

Post a pic of yourself at a party. Post a pic of what you ate, what you drank. Post a pic of you with your friends. (There was a shooting in Cleveland. A boy, twelve. A boy, black. A boy, holding a plastic gun.) Post a pic of your pet. Post a pic of a panda nibbling a shoot. Post a pic of you at the beach. Post a pic of your hotel room with a view of the city. (A man selling cigarettes in New York is put in a chokehold by police. ‘Compression of neck’, ‘compression of chest’ will be listed as causes of death.) Post a meme that says you are grateful.

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