A man can't tell anymore if he wears the glasses,

or the glasses wear him.

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A pushcart vendor watches time swallow his smallest wishes.

A city rents out its own graves.

A father remains in a house where no one is left to say the word father.

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Thirty short, unflinching stories about the quiet ways the world gets worn into us - through

habit, hunger, obedience, and the objects we think we control.

Spare, unsentimental, and often surreal,

The Glasses Wore Me never explains itself, and never looks away.

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Mehran Rameshjan writes in the space between memory and invention - where the ordinary tilts, just slightly,

into something else.