Readers of Make/Shift will find themselves confronting moments in which status and ceremony are shown to be destabilized, contingentsorting through the suddenly unfamiliar contents of a time capsule, hanging poolside with parents while their hockey player sons devastate a hotel, and wandering the memory palace of a traumatized valedictorian during a commencement addressall while flash vignettes based on corporate slogans saturate the story collection with greater and greater frequency, like the commercials of a TV movie.