I woke at 2:30 this morning to strange noises in my living room. My laptop was spluttering, exhaling, and blitzkrieging something awful and I proceeded to spend the next three hours texting Apple care.

Since I have to take in my two-motherfucking-month-old laptop for repair, articles will be on pause until it gets fixed and I stop crying my fucking eyes out, because as the kids keep reminding me, I’m old and need to write longer essays and articles on a computer.

Meanwhile, enjoy some essays/fiction you might have missed. Stories I loved writing and it seems most loved reading: