E.R. Ramzipoor is the author of The Ventriloquists (Park Row Books/HarperCollins). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in the North American Review, Slate, McSweeney’s, Salon, and Forbes. They teach writing for Hugo House and The Loft Literary Center, and they have an MFA from Brooklyn College, where they received the Irwin Lainoff Scholarship and the Renee Margulies Foundation Scholarship.
And because the house was filled with comfortable things, you wondered. As your wife slept under the perfect thread count, you licked peanut butter off a steak knife. You thought about what it might feel like to be...