5 March 2005 | Vol. 5, No. 1

Latter-Day Geniuses

by ANDREW LUX

"Would you still love me if I were frozen?" my brother asks from beneath his covers.

"I would still love you even if you were an electric dog," I murmur from across the room; the room I hate to describe. My brother said he saw a ghost on the ceiling. He said it resembled our father. That must have been years ago when we were still you