by Spencer Nitkey Yilei (Jerry) Bao In 1991, the artist Damien Hirst took a tiger shark from the ocean — well, to be specific, a fisherman took the shark from the ocean — so Damien Hirst took a shark from a fisherman who, at his request, had taken it from the ocean and submerged it in a steel-framed glass tank filled with formaldehyde. He titled the piece “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.” The millionaire who had paid him 60,000 something dol

by Spencer Nitkey Omar Roque Bethany told me she liked girls the same day mom ran over the neighbor’s dog with the Chevy. The only way I knew that anything had happened was that one day the Chevy was there like a bright red pickup-sized zit in the driveway, and the next it was gone and there was just a weird patch of grass — about a truck’s length wide — missing from the backyard. Churned soil and my father’s scowl and it was summer, I think, because we’d been gone all day, B