I just finished Welcome to the New World. Jessi Jezewska Stevens' short story is a surreal plunge into a life but even more is her prose. This is her opening paragraph:
Retail is debt. Storefronts create the illusion of prosperity. The city’s skyline is the visible sliver of a crescent moon, the penumbra of an eclipse; everything else lives in the red. Debt is the molten bedrock upon which all else shifts. This is a first principle of business. The question is how you manage it.
If the story provides an answer then the answer is the one known to all of us: not well.
Do read the story. Doing so will be time well spent.
sch 5/27/22
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