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Short Imagined Monologues
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May 7, 2025I’m the Imaginary Migrant Who Crossed the Darién Gap to Vote in the United States
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May 6, 2025My PR Degree Did Not Prepare Me to Run the Vatican’s Social Media. How Do I Launch the New Pope?
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April 28, 2025I’m Tommy Westphall from the Beloved 1980s Hospital Drama St. Elsewhere, and I Want RFK Jr. the Fuck Out of My Snow Globe
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April 25, 2025I Am the Servant in the Beast’s Castle Who Was Turned into a Chamberpot, and Nobody Ever Asks Me to Sing
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April 17, 2025I’m the Zipper on Your Preschooler’s Hand-Me-Down Jacket, and I’m Gonna Destroy Your Morning
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April 8, 2025I, Famously Good President Herbert Hoover, Am Imposing Tariffs to Bolster Domestic Manufacturing
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March 12, 2025I’m Chunk’s Mother, and No, He Did Not Consult Me Before Telling Sloth He Could Live with Us
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February 25, 2025I’m a Typo, and in This Age of AI, I’m the Real Hero
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February 21, 2025Why I Chose to Reenter the Matrix and Be a Living Battery for the Machines
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February 11, 2025I Vow to Fight Autocracy with Unprecedented Levels of Finger Wagging
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February 11, 2025As an Elected Republican Who Believes in the Rapture, This Is My Chance to Shine
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February 10, 2025Normalizing Indian Hate Makes Me a Good Father and Husband
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April 25, 2025This Five-Hundred-Word Bumper Sticker on My Tesla Explains Why I’m Not a Bad Person
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May 5, 2025Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
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May 6, 2025Introducing Our University’s New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure
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April 29, 2025Don’t Worry, We Were Prepared for Our Policies to Be Extremely Unpopular, Because They Are Very, Very Bad