Summary

In “Paper Ghosts,” the three housemates sat at Paper Cup for days. One afternoon, Sunna asked Maude why she had been moving furniture around until four in the morning. Maude said she went to bed at nine every night, and then explained that the house had ghosts. She had read an article about it in the paper after Larry’s aunt passed away. Sunna said she was no longer going to come to the café.

In “Flower Crisis,” Larry sat at home, depressed and unwilling to answer his phone. Bomb threats continued to be made against the art museum, and he was still a suspect. He took out a music magazine, Razorcake, and was upset to see that an article was praising the band Simple Plan as punk. He decided that he wanted to write punk reviews, He realized that...