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\section{Introduction}
Further  exploration of the Higgs boson discovered by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations~\cite{:2012gk,:2012gu} will be a primary goal
of the continued experimental program of the LHC.
In the well-measured decay modes, $h\to \gamma\gamma$, $WW$ and $ZZ$,  the determined couplings agree with
the Standard Model (SM) values to  $20-30$ percent~\cite{atlascoup,cmscoup}.  This agreement will be further probed during the upcoming LHC run.
The predictions of the SM are expected to be tested to the five percent  level in several production and decay modes~\cite{Dawson:2013bba}, providing an exciting opportunity
to discriminate between different mechanisms of electroweak symmetry breaking.
In addition, new properties of the Higgs boson will be accessed through the
measurement of its kinematic  distributions.  These measurements will test whether the tensor structures of the Higgs couplings are correctly
predicted by the SM, whether additional operators mediate Higgs production and decay, and whether there are new
particles that modify the loop-induced $ggH$ and $\gamma \gamma H$ couplings.

Such studies~\cite{atlasdiff}
are currently limited by the available statistics.  However, this situation will change during Run II of the LHC, and
eventually the limiting factor in the search for deviations in Higgs boson properties from predictions will be our understanding of SM theory.
This is apparent from a recent coupling combination performed by ATLAS~\cite{atlaserrors}.  The uncertainty on the theoretical predictions dominates
the systematic error budget in all of the di-boson decay modes.  One component of this error is  the overall signal normalization,
for which a precise calculation of inclusive Higgs production in the gluon-fusion channel is needed.
The completion of the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) calculation was recently announced~\cite{nnnlo}.
The other major component of the theoretical error is the need for improved predictions of the differential spectra that enter every analysis.
In some final states this need is obvious; for example, in the di-leptonic decay of the $WW$ channel a mass peak cannot be reconstructed, and
accurate calculations of both signal and background distributions are needed in order to devise appropriate experimental search strategies.
Even in modes where a resonance peak can be reconstructed, such as the $\gamma\gamma$ channel, the Higgs candidate events are categorized according
to their  transverse momentum ($p_\perp$) in order to improve the signal significance.
Such a division relies upon accurate and precise theoretical predictions for the Higgs $p_\perp$ and rapidity distributions,
that are used to reweight the parton-shower Monte Carlo simulations employed  by the experimental collaborations.

In this Letter we take a major step toward improving SM predictions for several kinematic distributions
employed in the analysis of Higgs boson properties,
by providing a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO)
calculation of Higgs boson
production in association with a jet. Compared to previous computations~\cite{Boughezal:2013uia,Chen:2014gva}, we include all relevant channels and color structures.
  The phenomenological impact of this result spans all Higgs
search channels.  In the $WW$ final state it refines the division of the signal prediction into exclusive zero-jet,
one-jet and inclusive two-jet bins, and it can be used to improve the resummation
of the jet-veto logarithms that accompany this division~\cite{jvlogs}.
For all final states our calculation  can be used to more accurately re-weight the Higgs $p_\perp$ distribution obtained from Monte Carlo.
Finally,  it will allow for the comparison of the measured differential distributions from LHC Run II with the most precise SM theory to more incisively probe the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking.

Our calculation also represents a technical milestone in the application of perturbative QCD to the modelling of hadronic collisions.
The past few years have seen a renaissance in the development of subtraction techniques designed to turn our knowledge of the infrared structure
of QCD at NNLO into actual phenomenological predictions for hadron-collider observables~\cite{nnlosub,Boughezal:2013uia,Chen:2014gva}.  Our result demonstrates the power of
these newly-developed methods in assisting the continued exploration of Nature at the LHC.

Our Letter  is organized as follows.  We first review the theoretical framework that we use to obtain the results reported in this paper.
Since this has
been described in detail in our previous work on Higgs plus jet production in pure gluodynamics~\cite{Boughezal:2013uia}, we only sketch here the
salient features of the calculation.  We then present the numerical results of the computation including NNLO results for cross sections
of Higgs plus jet production at various collider energies and for various values of the transverse momentum cut on the jet. We also discuss the NNLO QCD
corrections to the transverse  momentum distribution of the Higgs boson.  Finally, we present our conclusions.

\begin{figure}[t]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{figures/fig1.pdf}
 \caption{Cancellation of $1/\epsilon$ poles in the $qg$ channel. Note that individual contributions have been rescaled by a factor of $0.1$, while the sum of them
   is not rescaled.}
 \label{fig1}
\end{figure}

We begin by reviewing the details of the computation. Our calculation  is based on the effective theory obtained by integrating out the
top quark.  For values of the Higgs $p_\perp$ below 150 GeV, this approximation is known to work to 3\% or better at NLO~\cite{Harlander:2012hf,Dawson:2014ora}.
Since the Higgs boson receives its transverse momentum by recoiling against jets, we expect that a similar accuracy of the
large-$m_t$ approximation can be expected for observables where jet transverse momenta do not exceed ${\cal O}(150)~{\rm GeV}$ as well.

The effective Lagrangian is given by
\begin{equation}
{\cal L} = -\frac{1}{4} G_{\mu \nu}^{(a)} G^{(a),\mu \nu} +\sum_i \bar{q}_i {\mathrm i} \dslash{D} q_i
- C_1 \frac{H}{v} G_{\mu \nu}^{(a)} G^{(a),\mu \nu},
\label{eq:lag1}
\end{equation}
where $G_{\mu \nu}^{(a)}$ is the gluon field-strength tensor,  $H$ is the Higgs boson field and  $q_i$ denotes
the light quark field of flavor $i$.  The flavor index runs over the values $i=u,d,s,c,b$, which are all taken to be massless.
The covariant derivative $\dslash{D}$ contains the quark-gluon coupling. The Higgs vacuum expectation value is denoted by
$v$, and $C_1$ is the Wilson coefficient obtained by integrating out the top quark.  The calculation presented here
requires $C_1$ through ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^3)$, which can be obtained from Ref.~\cite{Chetyrkin:1997un}.
Both the Wilson coefficient and the strong coupling constant require ultraviolet renormalization; the corresponding renormalization
constants can be found e.g. in Ref.~\cite{Anastasiou:2002yz}.

Partonic cross sections computed according to the above prescription are still not finite physical quantities.  Two remaining issues must be addressed.  First,
contributions of final states with different number of  partons must be combined in  an appropriate way to produce  infrared-safe observables.  This requires a
definition of final states with jets.  We use the anti-$k_T$ jet algorithm~\cite{Cacciari:2008gp} to combine partons into jets.
Second, initial-state collinear singularities must be absorbed into the parton distribution
functions (PDFs) by means of standard $\overline {\rm MS}$ PDF renormalization. A detailed
discussion of this procedure can be found in Ref.~\cite{Buehler:2013fha}.

\begin{figure}[t]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{figures/fig2.pdf}
 \caption{ Dependence of the total LO, LO and NNLO cross-sections on the unphysical scale $\mu$. See text for details.}
 \label{fig2}
\end{figure}

The finite cross sections for each of the partonic channels $ij$ obtained in this way have an
expansion in the $\overline {\rm MS}$
strong coupling constant $\alpha_s \equiv \alpha_s(\mu)$, defined in a theory with five active flavors,
\begin{equation}
\sigma_{ij} = \sigma^{(0)}_{ij} + \frac{\alpha_s}{2\pi} \sigma^{(1)}_{ij} + \left(\frac{\alpha_s}{2\pi}\right)^2 \sigma^{(2)}_{ij} + {\cal O}(\alpha_s^6).
\end{equation}
Here, the omitted terms indicated by ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^6)$ include the $\alpha_s^3$ factor that is contained in the leading order cross section
$\sigma^{(0)}_{ij}$.   Our
computation will include the $gg$ and $q g$ partonic cross sections at NNLO, $\sigma^{(2)}_{gg}$ and $\sigma^{(2)}_{qg}$, where
$q$ denotes any light quark or anti-quark.  At NLO, it can be checked using MCFM~\cite{Campbell:2010ff} that these  channels contribute
over 99\% of the cross section for typical jet transverse momentum cuts, $p_\perp \sim 30$ GeV.  We therefore include the partonic  channels
with two quarks or anti-quarks in the initial state only through NLO.

In addition to the ultraviolet and collinear renormalizations described above, we need the following
ingredients to determine  $\sigma^{(2)}_{gg}$ and $\sigma^{(2)}_{qg}$: the two-loop virtual corrections to the partonic channels $gg \to Hg$ and $qg \to Hq$;
the one-loop virtual corrections to $gg \to Hgg$, $gg \to Hq\bar{q}$ and $qg \to Hqg$; the double real emission processes
$gg \to Hggg$, $gg \to Hgq\bar{q}$, $qg \to H qgg$ and $qg \to HqQ\bar{Q}$, where the $Q\bar{Q}$  pair in the
last process can be of any flavor.  The helicity amplitudes for
all of these processes are available in the literature. The
two-loop amplitudes were computed  in  Ref.~\cite{Gehrmann:2011aa}.
The one-loop corrections to the four-parton processes are known~\cite{gghgg_1loop} and available as a Fortran code in the MCFM program~\cite{Campbell:2010ff}.
For five-parton tree-level amplitudes, we use compact results obtained using BCFW recursions~\cite{simon_tree}.

The difficulty
in completing the NNLO calculation becomes apparent when one attempts to combine these contributions and cancel the infrared divergences that appear separately
in each component.  The problem is that final states with different multiplicities live  in different phase-spaces; this feature makes it impossible
to combine them directly. The issue becomes obvious if one looks at how $1/\epsilon$ singularities appear in different contributions.
Indeed,  the $1/\epsilon$ poles coming from loop amplitudes are explicit ones, but those coming from the real-emission corrections only appear upon
integration over the unresolved region of phase space.  However, since we want to keep the calculation fully differential,
we want to avoid integrating over the phase-space for higher-multiplicity processes.

To reconcile these two requirements, which at first sight appear to be mutually
exclusive, we use the sector-improved residue subtraction approach~\cite{Czakon:2010td,Czakon:2011ve,Boughezal:2011jf,Czakon:2014oma}.  This is an outgrowth
of the sector-decomposition method~\cite{Binoth:2003ak,Anastasiou:2003gr,Binoth:2004jv} used to compute the differential cross sections for Higgs boson and electroweak gauge bosons through NNLO.  Sector decomposition uses the observation that the relevant singularities can be isolated
using appropriate parameterizations of phase space and expansions in plus distributions.  Sector-improved residue subtraction combines this with the idea that a pre-partitioning of the final-state phase space similar to the FKS subtraction used at NLO~\cite{Frixione:1995ms}
allows to  extend this technique
to $2 \to 2$ and more complicated scattering processes.  A detailed discussion of the
phase-space parameterizations needed to handle all the contributing partonic processes was given in Ref.~\cite{Boughezal:2013uia}, to which we refer the
reader for more details.  Note, however, that Ref.~\cite{Boughezal:2013uia} dealt with $gg \to H+ng$ partonic processes for which  both the phase-space and
the matrix elements are highly symmetric. For the quark-gluon channel this symmetry is lost and one has to consider a larger number of ``sectors'' compared
to the case of pure gluodynamics.

Before discussing numerical results, we would like  to point out  two things in connection with the application of
sector-improved residue subtraction  method.
First, we note that upon applying this method, one automatically generates subtraction terms that allow  extraction
of $1/\epsilon$ singularities and, at the same time,  make integration of the finite remainders possible.
The key point is that these subtraction terms are obtained from universal soft and collinear limits of scattering amplitudes that
were computed long ago in Refs.~\cite{lcat1,lb, lmc3, lcat2, lzb1, lcat3, lcat4,Kosower:1999rx}.  The universality of these subtraction
terms makes the method of improved-sector decomposition attractive and, in principle, applicable to processes of arbitrarily high multiplicity.
Second, when sector-improved residue subtraction is applied to a physical process, it leads to a Laurent expansion
of the various contributions to  the cross section in the  dimensional regularization parameter $\epsilon$; the coefficients of this expansion are computed {\it numerically}. Since
final physical cross sections are independent of the regularization parameter, the quality of $1/\epsilon^n$, $n=4,3,2,1$, cancellation is an important check
of the correctness of the implementation of the method. To show the quality of the cancellation in our case, in Fig.~\ref{fig1} we present  various
contributions to the $1/\epsilon$ pole of the partonic cross section, together with the residual non-cancellation, in the $qg$ channel.
We show these quantities as functions of the distance from the partonic threshold, defined  as $\beta=\sqrt{1-s_{th}/\hat s},~~~\sqrt{s_{th}}=\sqrt{m_H^2+p_{\perp,cut}^2} + p_{\perp,cut}$.
We see that the cancellation is very good, at the level of one per mill
or better.   Although in Fig.~\ref{fig1} we display the result for the total cross section, we have also checked that the cancellation holds at a similar
level for kinematic distributions.

In addition,  we have checked that our results for the Higgs plus 2-jet cross
section at NLO agree with  MCFM~\cite{Campbell:2006xx},
for both the fiducial cross section and for several kinematic distributions.  We have two separate
numerical implementations of the sector-improved residue subtraction method that demonstrate good agreement.
Furthermore, an independent calculation was also performed using the jettiness-subtraction technique~\cite{FrankRadjaHpJ},
and good agreement for the fiducial cross sections was  found.

We now turn to the discussion of  numerical results.   We first compute the LO, NLO and NNLO cross
sections for Higgs plus jet production $pp \to H+j$
at the $8$ TeV and $13$ TeV LHC. We use $m_H=125~{\rm GeV}$ and $m_t=172.5~{\rm GeV}$. To define the cross section,
we use the anti-$k_\perp$ algorithm with $\Delta R = 0.5$ and
a cut on the jet transverse momentum
$p_\perp > 30~{\rm GeV}$.   We employ parton distribution functions and the strong coupling constant as provided by the NNPDF21LO~\cite{Ball:2011mu}, NNPDF23NLO and NNPDF23NNLO~\cite{Ball:2012cx}
PDF sets to compute respectively LO, NLO and NNLO cross sections.  We set the renormalization and factorization scales to the mass
of the Higgs boson and we estimate the uncertainty associated with higher orders in perturbation theory by changing the scale
by a factor of two. For the $8$~TeV LHC, we find  $ \sigma_{pp \to H+j} =   3.9^{+1.7}_{-1.1}~{\rm pb},\; 5.6^{+1.3}_{-1.1}~{\rm pb},\;  6.7^{+0.5}_{-0.6}~{\rm pb}$ at leading, next-to-leading
and next-to-next-to-leading order, respectively. Results for $\mu=m_H/2$ and $\mu=2 m_H$ are shown as super- and sub-scripts, respectively.
 For $\mu = m_H$, the NLO (NNLO)  cross section exceeds the leading order one by $44\% \; (72\%)$, indicating reasonable convergence of perturbative expansion. The convergence is better
for lower scales: for example, for $\mu = m_H/2$ the NLO (NNLO) cross section exceeds the leading order one by $23\% \; (29\%)$. As expected, the scale uncertainty is significantly
reduced at NNLO. This is also illustrated in Fig.~\ref{fig2}, where we plot the total cross section at LO, NLO and NNLO as a function of the unphysical scale $\mu$ over the range
$\mu \in [p_{\perp,cut}:2 m_H]$. We estimate the residual uncertainty due to PDF to be at the $\mathcal O(5\%)$ level.
The situation is similar for the 13 TeV LHC. More precisely, we find $\sigma_{pp\to H+j}= 10.2^{+4.0}_{-2.6}~{\rm pb},\; 14.7^{+3.0}_{-2.5}~{\rm pb},\; 17.5^{+1.1}_{-1.4}~{\rm pb}$ at leading, next-to-leading
and next-to-next-to-leading order, corresponding to a NLO (NNLO) increase with respect to LO of $44\% \; (72\%)$ for $\mu=m_H$ and of $25\% \; (31\%)$ for $\mu=m_H/2$.

\begin{figure}[t]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{figures/fig3.pdf}
 \caption{Higgs plus jet production cross-sections in dependence of the cut on the jet transverse momentum. The minimal cut we consider is
$p_\perp > 30~{\rm GeV}$. See text for details.}
 \label{fig3}
\end{figure}

It is interesting   to understand to what extent perturbative  QCD corrections depend on the
kinematics of the process and/or on the details of the jet algorithm.
One way to study this is to explore how the
NNLO QCD corrections change as the lower cut on the jet transverse momentum is varied.
We show corresponding results for the 8 TeV LHC in Fig.~\ref{fig3} where the cumulative distribution for  $\sigma(H+j,p_{\perp,j} \ge p_{\perp,{\rm cut}})$ is displayed.
The inset in Fig.~\ref{fig3} shows  ratios of  NNLO(NLO) to NLO(LO) $H+j$  cross-sections, respectively,
computed  for $\mu_F = \mu_R = m_H$ as a function of the jet $p_\perp$-cut.
It follows from Fig.~\ref{fig3}  that QCD radiative corrections depend on the kinematics. Indeed,
the NNLO to NLO cross-sections ratio changes from $1.25$ at $p_\perp = 30~{\rm GeV}$ to $\sim 1$ at $p_\perp \sim 150~{\rm GeV}$.

\begin{figure}[t]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{figures/fig4.pdf}
 \caption{ Higgs boson transverse momentum distribution in $pp \to H+j$ at $8$ TeV LHC. The jet is defined
with the anti-$k_\perp$ algorithm with $\Delta R = 0.5$ and the cut on the jet transverse momentum of $30~{\rm GeV}$.
Further details are explained in the  text.}
 \label{fig4}
\end{figure}

In Fig.~\ref{fig4} we show the Higgs boson transverse momentum distribution in the reaction $pp \to H+j$,
for three consecutive orders of perturbation theory.  We require that there
is a jet in the final state with a transverse momentum higher than $p_{\perp,j} > 30~{\rm GeV}$.
Note that the two bins closest to the boundary $p_{\perp,H}=30$ GeV have been combined to avoid the well-known Sudakov-shoulder effect~\cite{Catani:1997xc}.
Away from that region, the NNLO QCD radiative corrections increase the NLO cross-section by about $20\%$,
slowly decreasing as $p_{\perp,H}$ increases.

In conclusion, we have presented a calculation of the NNLO QCD corrections to the production of the Higgs boson in association with a jet at
the LHC. This is the first complete computation of NNLO QCD corrections to a Higgs production process with a jet in the final state.
It shows that techniques for performing NNLO QCD  computations,  that were in the development phase for several years, can indeed be used to provide
precise predictions for complex process at hadron colliders.   The total cross section for $H+$jet production receives moderate NNLO QCD
corrections. For jets defined with the anti-$k_\perp$ algorithm with $p_{\perp, j} > 30~{\rm GeV}$, we find NNLO QCD corrections
 of the order of $20\%$ for $\mu = m_H$.  These moderate corrections are the result of the smaller corrections for the $qg$ channel w.r.t the $gg$ one,
and a suppression of the $gg$ channel due to $q\bar q$ final states not considered in previous analyses~\cite{Boughezal:2013uia,Chen:2014gva}.
Beyond the total cross section, our computation will have important implications for many processes  that are used
to study properties of the Higgs boson, including $W^+W^-$ and $\gamma \gamma$ final states, primarily through improved modelling of the Higgs
transverse momentum and rapidity distributions.  In particular, since the complete N$^3$LO computation of the Higgs boson production cross section is available,
a consistent computation of the $H+0$~jets, $H+1$~jet, $H+2$~jet and $H+3$~jet exclusive processes becomes  possible for the first time.
Furthermore, since the Higgs boson is a spin-zero particle, our computation can be easily extended to include Higgs boson decays, to enable
theoretical predictions for fiducial cross sections and kinematic distributions for the particles that are observed in detectors.
Once this is done, our calculation will
provide a powerful tool that will help to understand detailed properties of the Higgs boson at the LHC.

We thank T.~Becher, J.~Campbell, T.~Gehrmann and M.~Jaquier for helpful communications.
We are grateful to S.~Badger for making his results for tree-level amplitudes available to us.
F.~C. would like to thank the Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics of KIT and the Physics and Astronomy Department of Northwestern University for hospitality at various stages of this project.
R.~B. is supported by the DOE under the contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.  F.~P. is supported by the DOE grants DE-FG02-91ER40684 and DE-AC02-06CH11357.
This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science
of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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The Chicago Sun-Times Cuts Its Books Pages
By Matthew Kassel • 07/01/13 2:27pm
On July 14, a day usually associated with the imminent demise of the French monarchy, one section of the Chicago Sun-Times will see an overthrow of its own. The paper, which recently laid off its entire photo staff (a move that resulted in a hilarious Tumblr that shows the crappy photos the Windy City tabloid has run ever since), delivered more bad news last week when it announced that it will cease regular publication of its books coverage.
All entertainment coverage will be subsumed by the paper's Splash section, which focuses primarily on style, celebrity and society.
Books coverage will continue to exist in some capacity in the paper, but Teresa Budasi, the paper's books editor, told Publishers Weekly that it will most likely zero in on local authors as opposed to book reviews.
"I can't say I was surprised," wrote Henry Kisor, the paper's former books editor, on his blog. "In fact, I'm amazed that authors and books lasted as long in the city's struggling No. 2 paper as they did."
While the news is disheartening–and unsurprising–not all newspapers are sending their books coverage to the graveyard. Last year Chicago's daily broadsheet, The Chicago Tribune, introduced Printers Row Journal, a paid supplement available to Trib subscribers that offers author interviews, reviews and other book-related news. In the first weeks after it was introduced, subscriptions increased by almost 20%, according to the Tribune Media Group.
Perhaps there is hope for books coverage, after all–but sadly, perhaps not in tabloids aimed at a city's working class readers.
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Selective attention and the active remapping of object features in trans-saccadic perception
David Melcher
When the same object is attended both before and after a saccadic eye movement, its visual features may be remapped to the new retinal position of the object. To further investigate the role of selective attention in trans-saccadic perception, the magnitude of the cross-saccadic tilt aftereffect was measured for both attended and unattended objects. The results show that both selective attention and saccadic eye movements influenced the magnitude of the tilt aftereffect, but in different ways. Dividing attention among multiple objects lead to a general decrease in the tilt aftereffect, independent of whether or not a saccade occurred. Making a saccade also resulted in a consistent reduction of the aftereffect, but this was due to incomplete transfer of form adaptation to the new retinal position. The influences of selective attention and saccadic remapping on the tilt aftereffect were independent and additive. These findings suggest that trans-saccadic perception is not limited to a single object but instead depends on the allocation of selective attention. Overall, the results are consistent with the hypothesis that the role of attention is to select salient objects, with trans-saccadic perception mechanisms acting to maintain information about those salient objects across eye movements.
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Short Story: First Law
First Law
By John Stegner
As soon as Stacy opened the bathroom door she heard a crash and then a scream from Jason, her boyfriend of six months. Despite the crash's oddly high volume and the definitively painful tone of the scream, she had already showered and combed her hair without hearing a sound, so she assumed that he had been sleeping soundly until that point. It was more than likely that he'd had one of the traumatic nightmares to which he was prone, and so she turned on the cold dormitory fluorescent ceiling light and rushed to his side.
"Poor Jason! It's okay, baby" she tried to place her hand on his head, but he jerked it off as he struggled to sit up. He was very disoriented, and so she put her arms around his shoulders to steady him.
"Holy shit." He said between deep, gasping breaths. He held his head and leaned his arms on his knees. "Oh my god."
"Shh, it's okay" she said. Her hand stroked his matted hair. He still had not made any eye contact. "Does your head hurt, baby? Do you want to talk about it?"
"I don't know, I was floating. Like," he took another large breath and stared at the spot from where he'd just landed. "I was floating above the bed. I was out of control."
"Oh, wow babe, that sounds terrible," she said in the steady tone and cadence of the wearily patient. "How did that make you feel, darling?"
"No, you don't get it," he said standing up and shifting his head to the ceiling, the walls, the floor. "I was literally out of control. I couldn't get down." He kept his hands on his head and paced.
She wrinkled her mouth—this conveyed a note of concern and solemnity worthy of this level of disturbance without seeming condescending or hyperbolic or generally fake in any degree—and nodded her head slowly to show that she was neither frightened nor dismissive.
He knocked her shoulder as he climbed onto the bed. He put his hands to each of the walls. He stood up and jumped to reach the ceiling. "I was able to fucking touch the ceiling, Stacy. I can't touch it now, but…" He continued jumping until he leaped from the bottom of the bed and ripped off the blankets.
She stood, blinked very slowly upon inhaling, and calmly rationalized whether she should stop him or let his manic state continue until it calmed down. She did this while imagining herself on a lovely beach, perhaps Hawaii or, no, definitely Cannes, and materialized her concern and fear into a large ship in the middle of the ocean. She could see the ship, could wave to Jason on the ship, but she herself was serene. She could hear nothing but the waves on the ocean, which were only interrupted by Jason's banging the walls.
"Baby, calm down," she said in earnest after the third bang sent the framed Thelonious Monk poster on the opposite wall to the floor with a beach-leveling impact. "Everyone has dreams like this, sweetheart. Everyone." He looked down at her and realized he must look insane up there banging the walls. She wouldn't believe him, but he wanted to convey the realness, the fucking realness, of what had happened.
But then again, he'd been stabbed, helplessly watched her be stabbed, and done the stabbing himself consecutively in the past three nights. He breathed deeply.
"I want a cig," he said, and ducked under the bed to check the pockets of a pair of Duke sweatpants. "Shit—do we have any left?"
"I do," she said and picked up her purse in front of the door. She searched through it, noting the plane ticket and reminding herself that she needed to leave soon, fifteen minutes soon, hardly enough time to settle him down. She confirmed the time on the gleaming digital alarm clock beside the bed: 6:01 a.m. "Darn," she said, "I can't find the pack."
"Oh," he took his head from his hands. "Shit, I took it last night." He crouched. "Um, it must still be under the bed somewhere."
She pressed a button on the phone inside her purse, one new message. She didn't check it. Fourteen minutes soon.
He found the pack and stood. His breathing had calmed and he gave a weak smile. Holding up the near-empty pack of Camel Lights, he looked like someone her mother would call "a lost soul." She embraced him. "I'm so sorry, baby. Let's go smoke outside, okay? I have to leave soon."
"Oh," he squeezed the pack accidentally and stared at its crushed form. "Shit, I forgot about that." He looked at her. "Are you ready? Oh, you are."
"Yeah, I showered earlier." She smiled. "Let's go outside."
They opened the door, descended down the elevator, and exited the building. Jason was shaking from both cold and adrenaline. Stacy checked the message; it was a farewell from a sorority sister. Twelve minutes soon.
She lit Jason's cigarette for him. He sat on the edge of the brick wall, shivering more vigorously with each exhale. She remained standing to avoid staining her skirt. The stream of blue emergency campus telephone stalls lit the path she would take ten minutes soon. She didn't ask about whatever hallucination he'd had; they'd been common for the past two months and she'd stopped asking because it would only send him into a panic attic. She'd invented schmaltzy terms for Jason's various psychotic episodes in an effort to create some semiotic distance from their traumatic effects. These included dissociation station (a lackadaisical disconnect from reality in which the subject is unsure whether s/he is dreaming, unable to form coherent thoughts or responses to stimuli, often accompanied by mild hallucinatory sensations, in Jason's case the flexibility/translucency of walls), aftershocks (the moment when a night terror ends and the subject spastically regains the ability to move), shark sleep (in which vivid dreams involving violence against him, stabbing or choking in Jason's case, occur), and fucking shitty Friday (in which the subject finds a particular day, obvious in this case, particularly difficult and while in a disassociation station attempts to harm him/herself). They were typically only useful one hour or three cigarettes after the experience itself.
Two weeks ago, Jason had relayed to her a meeting with a school-sponsored therapist that had explained that these were common reactions in both the grieving process and the trauma-induced bipolar disorder that stemmed from it. It was a loss of control, stage three of the grieving process. The mind struggles to cease its cognitive dissonance; death could not be bargained with, and it was this that led to the dreams of the choking and stabbing. It was a simple loss of control. He'd explained it in some detail every time he searched trauma on WebMD (which was several times a day) but she hadn't been able to consistently listen with three papers due and only a week left before the collective deadline. That was during midterms; she wanted to drop everything, to listen fully, but she didn't know when this would end and she'd decided it would be best if he handled it on his own at least part of the time. His one class was already monumentally difficult for him and he occupied hours attempting to read ten pages of Othello between binge-searches for individual SSRI chemistry entries on wikipedia.
There were three different conciliatory phrases or conversation guidelines she'd perfected. Firstly, for use in the most dire of circumstances, she reminded him of all the traumatic experiences that had happened to him in the past six months, experiences that would take months or years to really truly get over; this normally required a large amount of time due to how troubling even the acknowledgment of the tragedy was. Secondly, for a five to ten minute conversation, she would remind him of the people who still cared for him and ask him whether or he'd taken a klonopin in the last six hours; even though she knew when he took his medication, this question reoriented his sense of time to result in a negligible increase in productivity, or he would check his laptop clock and become distracted long enough for her to read a quarter to one half of a research article. Lastly, the maneuver of the most minimal involvement, she would ask him to google something, the result of which was almost sure that of the second strategy but with minimized risk of troubled thoughts and thus inevitable first-strategy usage.
He stared above at the black sky before resting his gaze on the small yellow postage stamp window of his dorm room on the sixth floor. When viewed from above, the building was shaped like a U with a straight bottom and obtuse instead of right angles; it held them inside itself gently.
"Did you check your phone?" she asked.
"No," he said, and pulled it out of his pants pocket. He examined it, his eyes squinting from troubled sleep. He held it up to her as if he saw something she would immediately notice.
"The phone wasn't weightless, Stace," he said. "That was the weirdest part. Just me. It was holding me down, I think, like an anchor or something."
"Wow, that sounds so intense."
He breathed in the cold, dark air. It stung his throat. "It was." He saw a new message. "Text from Dad. Couldn't sleep last night. Just wanted to tell you I love you."
"That's so sweet," she said. "I love your dad. You should text him back."
"Later," he said, and stared at the screen without blinking until the text blurred into a gelatinous mass.
"I need to leave," she finally said.
"Okay," he stood slowly and coughed. "Do me one favor?"
"Of course, baby."
"This is stupid."
"No! What?" She gave him her hand to help him up. "You can tell me."
"Would you walk me upstairs? I'm kind of spacey right now."
"Of course." Thirty seconds soon.
Her mother had made the sound judgment that the trip would be an important test to their relationship: if he could handle two weeks alone, he would be okay without her surveillance for the next two years in school without her. If not, then there was lamictal, lithium, klonopin, xanax, or the meds she hadn't written down from the documentary Jason's therapist had recommended she watch.
Leaning against the parallel walls, They ascended six floors in the elevator. She opened the door for him and he crawled back into bed. She smoothed his hair and kissed him.
"I'll be back soon," she said.
"Mmkay," he said, half his face on the pillow. He lifted it to kiss her again, but she was already by the door. "I love you."
"I love you too, darling. Remember: you know how to get out of the attic yourself." She couldn't see him after she turned off the light, only the bed was visible in the dim green glow of his digital alarm clock.
"Mmkay." he said, eyes closed. "Love you. Be safe."
"Have a good weekend," she said as the door closed. It shut completely, darkness settled, and he lifted.
Scream her name she already left there's no sound no noise phone yes text call something where no fuck it's outside no anchor push push hard now…
Crashed bookshelf next to the door clinging top shelf books crashing but no noise but no sound pull forward hold steady…
Fuck shit sick vomit gurgling gargling splash splatter…
Shaking ringing pounding hold it steady…
Dear god please…
Push again…
Push hard now…
Against the other wall now back again gently back…
The door's right there grab it grab the door hold the handle yes yes okay yes there steady…
Pull hard…
Hard harder fuck no…
Open please open pull harder…
No no no bang no bang no bang blood bang please bang someone…
Outside it's there anchor Stacy Dad someone just outside right out there past the window yes the window…
Push slow just push gently…
Blinds dig deep hold tight yes okay yes just open the blinds…
Crank the window destroy the screen then outside Stacy or Dad he's up definitely…
Shit time what time clock 89:99 what the fuck whatever outside anchor Stacy Dad…
First pull the string on the blinds…
Pull hit the ceiling weightless damn…
Pull hard hit the ceiling little bit…
Pull harder hit the ceiling last one…
Pull hard hit the ceiling good enough…
Darkness nothing no one no lights no time no noise anchor yes crank next rotate…
Hold steady first rotate steady…
Hold steady and rotate…
Cold air beautiful fresh frigid stinging last thing…
The screen last thing window screen push…
Nothing push…
Salty breathing pulse break break open please break anchor yes…
Scratch bite claw gnaw pound no steady steady hold steady…
Momentum opposite wall f = m x a mom physics homework screaming frustrated but laughing at the end fuck hurts still…
Why today why leave today…
But the anchor yes please push hard float…
Door handle again hold tight push shove everything now everything as hard as you can…
Out god yes…
Sinking down down down down slowly slowly blurry bricks slowly slowly five ten fifteen minutes maybe cold freezing maybe the ground hurts sometimes but not now not ever anymore no friction no pain Stacy Dad anchor closer closer hold steady.
John Stegner, studies English Education at the University of Virginia and currently resides in the bovine wonderland of Powhatan, Virginia. He has received the Wagenheim Prize for Best Short Story from the university, and has served as an editor for the Virginia Literary Review.
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Models Monday (Memorial Day 2015 Edition): Today Mimics Savage Yesterday
Posted bymilesaway44105 May 25, 2015 July 14, 2015 Posted inSeries
Some of The New York Times's reporting on the case of Tamir Rice and its aftermath remain true. For instance, Samaria Rice did live in a shelter with her daughter Tajai, and while at the time the video was made they remained there, they moved to a small home during the Spring. According to what Rice's attorney told The Plain Dealer, "the outpouring of support, [enabled her] to find a safe, private domicile […]" As stated in the Times op-doc, Ms. Rice chose to leave the residence near Cudell Recreation Center, a location she aptly terms, "the killing field," where Officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir. The Rice family's suffering continues to weigh heavily on them.
Once again, poverty significantly informs the disgrace the Rice family endures. Loehmann killed rice in November. The family held a memorial service at Mount Sinai Baptist Church for Tamir 10 days after his death on November 22, 2014. Lack of money has contributed to the family's inability to bury Tamir. The Plain Dealer also reported that the Rice family attorney contends that Tamir's body had remained uninterred "because the family did not know whether the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office would need to re-examine" the boy's body.
I remember reading that black families who experienced lynchings had varying responses to burying their dead. Some families made arrangements for dignified services that stood in stark contrast to the ghoulish manner of the murder. Others maintained the belief that those who committed the crime should be responsible for burying the body they lynched. The family of 14-year-old George Stinney Jr., the youngest person executed in the United States, were forced to leave town by those promising to lynch them if they stayed. After Stinney's execution, his body was buried in an unmarked grave. According to Stinney's sister, Amie Ruffner, the family's rationale for leaving her brother's grave unmarked had much to do with giving him a measure of peace: "If we had allowed a stone to be there, and someone would have found out where my brother was, they probably would have dug his grave up and thrown him to the wolves." Stinney, who was finally exonerated 70-years later, now has a headstone:
George Stinney, Jr. supporters erect a headstone as a memorial.
The Stinney's decision to leave their son's grave unmarked and the terror they felt when told to leave town are plausible given the realities of Jim Crow violence. The nation's claims of racial progress since the Jim Crow era are less plausible given that Ms. Rice's dismal choices mirror those of black families during those savage yesterdays. To that end, only a few weeks ago, Samaria Rice "decided" to have her son's body cremated–presumably because she could not pay the $18,000 debt she owed the Medical Examiner's Office, which charges $75 to hold a dead body in refrigeration.
This Memorial Day, I am nearly overwhelmed by the mean-spirited, cruel, bitter, and spiteful manner in which the U.S. continues to treat black children–especially those "living in poverty" (see: Red Nose post). Given the slow pace of an "investigation" that the Medical Examiner's Office ruled a "HOMICIDE" and the Office's recommendation that holding Tamir's body was less costly than having to exhume it later, Tamir's mother now has a bill for a future need that has become impossible. It's hard for me to even imagine Samaria Rice ever living in peace…one can only pray.
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6 thoughts on "Models Monday (Memorial Day 2015 Edition): Today Mimics Savage Yesterday"
Mary Burrell says:
There are no words for this it's just so tragic the cases of Tamir Rice and George Stinney. I pray for tamir Rice's mother and all the mothers who lost children due to brutality from the system of law enforcement. May the rest in peace.
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Tiffany B. says:
Bare.
I knew what you meant 🙂
Exactly!! I can only imagine that the death of a child is the heaviest burden to bear!
I know what you mean…