Hey y’all! I’m geeked to launch Identity Theory’s new micro section with our very first MICRO MONDAY! Each week, we’ll feature micro from one writer. Please read and share widely, and don’t forget to submit your own work if you’d like the chance to be featured.
I had originally planned to write a bit about the pieces selected for publication and what drew me to them, but I’ve reevaluated and reneged. What I love most about micro is its density, at once compact and weighted, its necessity for evocative layering, and its deft distension and release. Micro draws its own boundaries and follows its own rules. I couldn’t bear to sap that magic with my own blanched exposition.
So here it is, our first piece: micro from Jay Parr, “Life, Fluid”
Sticky-slick dog vomit squishes up warm between my toes, and I would think the sun-hot asphalt in this snarled intersection was an odd place for dog puke, were I thinking of anything other than my love’s body strapped inert onto that orange plastic board, his head wrapped bloody in those foam-rubber chocks, the paramedics counting out their lift and swinging him deadweight onto their lowered gurney…
Thanks for reading,
Vic Nogay
Micro Editor
Identity Theory