Graham Techler

Graham Techler’s writing appears or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Faultline. His plays have been produced off-Broadway at 59E59 and published in anthologies by Smith & Kraus and Applause Books. He is a member of EST/Youngblood and received his BFA from the University of Michigan. He lives in Brooklyn.

KEY FRAME by Graham Techler

Five years I’ve been in animation. The doctor at the walk-in clinic says I have the wrists of an eighty-year-old. I’m not an eighty-year-old. He says by the time I’m actually an eighty-year-old, you wouldn’t be able to sell my wrists on the black market. According to the doctor, a black market buyer would say “you call that a wrist? This is not what I come to the black market for.” The doctor doesn’t have a very good bedside manner but that’s what you get at the walk-in clinic.  Suffice it to say that when you meet me at the…

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