Alice closed her bathroom door. She wrapped herself in a blanket and sank to the ground. Her back felt solid against a vinyl cabinet, and seconds searching in the dark found her tablet. She opened it. What am I doing? she thought. I already failed one class! Do I want to fail another? I mean at this point though I couldn’t catch up even if I tried. She entered her password and downloaded Pinterest. Her actions were rote.


    Alice opened the app, then a folder: Wisdom, philosophy, and esoteric nonsense. Her breathing slowed. The screen was a field of text and grays. She pressed on the first post.


    The man of Tao remains unknown. Perfect virtue produces nothing. ‘no self’ is ‘true self’. And the greatest man is nobody. - Chang Tzu. She swiped


    “People are still good, mostly” she saidThis story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings.


    “Not from what I’m hearing” he said.


    “Love is quieter than gunshots. But there is more of it.” she swiped


    Sometimes happiness means doing strange things with weird people. she swiped with a smile


    “Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat” – Sun Tzu. She swiped


    An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, a wise man hardly anything. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. She swiped


    Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. She moved the post to the section called ‘metal’ and swiped.


    “I thought same color meant same taste.


    Tangerines, oranges, and the sun. Citrus.


    When I saw my great-grandmother peel a tangerine with her bare hands while men used knives for oranges, she became God.


    I imagined what she could do with the sun.” – JP Infante, Yasica, Puerto Plata. She swiped.


    Latibule: (noun) a hiding place; a place of safety and comfort. The roof collapsed.