Contents
The USS Narwhal
The Question about Electric Sheep
Cleopatra’s Bee-Box Vibrator
Squatters’ Rights
Imagined Narratives
Nicholas Culpeper, Briefly
In Quarters
I Can’t See a Thing
The Sport of Kings
France Is America’s Oldest Ally
Be Afraid
Goodbye, Fly
Hand-Waving Pseudoscience
Some Skynet Bullshit
Sike!
Those Who Do Not Learn from History
Time Travel
But the Boston Dynamics Robot Dog Though...
Toodle-oo, Kangaroo
The Unexpected
Faith
Oh
Also Unexpected
The Metal Womb Does Have a Conceptual Grasp of Clit
Some Facts about Human Birth
Nicholas Culpeper
Shame
The Intern, Alone at Night
Wildflower Season Is Torture Season Too
Shame, Still
Motivation and Intention
The Intern Trains the New Intern
Tartar Sauce All Down His Chin
Time Travel, Again
Assisted Birth in the Nineteenth Century
Historically, the English Have Strong Opinions about the French
HitchBOT Was Dependent on the Kindness of Strangers
Scientific Theory
Nicholas Culpeper and the Doctrine of Signatures
Little Lights
Homebound
Blub...Blub...Blub...
Adaptation
Potent
Safe
Creative Nonfiction or Autofiction
The Tragedy of Bipedalism
Progress
The Further Tragedy of Bipedalism
How Quickly We Forget
Au Contraire, Mon Frère
How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth
Olly Olly Oxen Free
Bias
Fear-Based Responses
Communication Breakdown
The Scientist
Adaptation
Pulling the Plug
Surgically Assisted Birth
Nicholas Culpeper and Heavenly Bodies
Relearning
Severe Deficits
Hunting in the Red of October
But
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The Crocodile
Could God Make a Rock So Big
Acknowledgments