Fiction
Crazy Season
by Paul Graham
by Paul Graham
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For our tenth issue, At Play, we called for work about youth, sports, and leisure, as well
as work that plays with format, language, and convention. While preparing the issue, we
quickly realized the obvious: the seemingly lighthearted sub-themes are all tempered by
profound solemnity. In this issue, you will find writing and visual art that plays with the
duplicitous reality of what brings us joy: our love for things confronted by our resentment
of their eventual death, failure, or disappointment. In these pieces, the nostalgia for youth
is checked by the confusion inherent in growing up; games are lost without redemption;
and sex can be a contest—or worse, a video in the wrong hands. But there are moments
of pure play too—play trance, plays on expectations, and parts played well.
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