![]() ![]() Neither did the car dealership mailers or the Amazon packages or our Big Butts™ magazine subscription. In the mornings, I waited for the young MoFo with the red headphones to hurtle past on his bike faster than a toupee in a hurricane, for him to use his black-and-white projectile to decapitate another hydrangea flower head. Honestly, the toilet wand has more dignity. Filling his water bowl proved tricky for me, so I escorted him to the porcelain throne which was fruitful and utterly revolting. I put clothes in the laundry machine and dealt with Dennis’s not-so-subtle hints at dinnertime when he pummeled his food bowls as if they had castrated him. Since Big Jim was so busy jabbing his finger at the basement wall and doing a stellar impression of a rabid raccoon, I took on even more of the household chores than I normally do. ![]() In the days after Big Jim’s eyeball rolled out of his head, it became clear that I was going to have to pick up some of the slack. Hollow Kingdom is about a pet crow fighting to save humanity from an apocalypse. She calls the tropical utopia of Seattle, Washington, home. Kira Jane Buxton’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. ![]() The following is an excerpt from Kira Jane Buxton's genre-bending debut novel, Hollow Kingdom. ![]()
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