Kim Samek

According to philosopher and writer Albert Camus, absurdity exists somewhere between a human need and a silent world. It involves an “irrational and wild” longing for clarity and often defies meaning-making. This is the rub that writers have been sorting out for centuries—interrogating the horrors of existence, hoping to derive a semblance of meaning. Kim …

I got a letter from the government claiming an easement on my leg. I had just moved into this house and must not have looked at the paperwork carefully. A few months later, an official in a yellow vest and hardhat knocked on my door. He was carrying a machine that looked like a hole …