Gracie Newman Gracie Newman is a writer from Buffalo. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center and now lives — you guessed it — in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Joyland, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere.

Tooth Skin

Gracie Newman

Yesterday, Microsoft Word started to identify the word “tomorrow” as a spelling error. I keep adding it to the digital dictionary, and it keeps forgetting. I think my computer has dementia. Soon it won’t even remember my name: “Hello, User!” That’s how my year is going. Every morning I sit down with my laptop and a stack of books and don’t touch either. Instead, I watch things wither through the...