I like everything about your story except where it starts.  a little longer in the dog’s mouth.  I couldn’t separate the gnome’s suntan from the minotaur’s heart transplant.  maybe your parents could write me a letter?  how many missed meals does presence eat?  it did make me sad, the snowball fight beneath a boneless moon.  and the daughter born to fake her pregnancies.  look, we all have a brother who can’t move.  who puts a clock in a time capsule.  suicide?  on other planets.