I don't know what's real. I don't know what's not real.

Limited capacity is a collection of six darkly amusing stories about the mysterious ways we interact with the internet and with each other.

There's something going on with him. It's like an act. I don't trust him.

What?

You're staring at me like I should say something, but I don't really know what to do here.

That's the whole name of the game.

Don't talk about how the town isn't real.

You understand?

Limited capacity.

Available now on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts.

This is a CBC podcast.

While we're walking, I could feel somebody getting closer to me,

and they're following me, but I pretend I don't notice.

And then they actually slip a note in the back pocket of my Levi jeans.

From CBC, This is Love Me, a show about the messiness of Human Connection.

I'm Lou.

My grandmother was obsessed with keeping fit.

She always tried the latest thing. I remember visiting her in Arizona right around the time aerobics were invented.

She wore the leotard, the tights, the leg warmers, just like Jane Fonda.

Her whole life she drank Epsom salts, and she'd give herself and my grandfather enemas on a regular basis.

Once she sent us a Polaroid in the mail of my grandfather sitting on the toilet, cleaning himself out.

Another time, a Polaroid of him skinny dipping in the backyard pool.

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