Reverse Evolution
My lover is experiencing reverse evolution. I tell no one. I don’t know how it happened, only that one day he was my lover and the next he was some kind of ape. It’s been a month and now he’s a sea turtle.
I keep him on the counter in a glass baking pan filled with salt water.
- first lines of “The Rememberer” from Aimee Bender’s short story collection: The Girl With the Flammable Skirt
