Fiction & Poetry
Categorypatrol 2: 52 Card Pickup
On the Xth day of the siege—where X is a day that both me and at least one other person would remember the same way—shiny brass yelled at bloody brass so much that the walls shook.
A Fistful of Tickets
Waggawolla Land! Jack Econski hated Waggawolla Land! He despised everything about the theme park, from its smarmy, saccharine image to its mascot Waggawolla Wallaby.
The End is Nigh
December was the month the world was supposed to end.
patrol 1: reading Farmer Boy made me never want to read anything fictional again and this is the result
There’s a bunch of talk that overloads my care nerves. I’ve got APD. I listen for machine gun fire or my own name.
Troubling Murmurs
Jasmine married the Heart two years ago.
The Getaway
My stepdad always had the advantage when things got violent.
Breeds Contempt
Dreamt a seemingly inexhaustible stream of people kept moving in to the flat.
Purge 1
What’s the matter with you? I’m all right. Thanks for mentioning it. God walks on all fours with icicles.
The Story of a Dog’s Body
This story is told from the point of view of a family dog who wakes up one morning in the grips of a debilitating depression.
The Saddest Piss in the World
I’m standing in a dark closet howling,
screaming like a monkey,
what a monkey sounds like,
what a monkey sounds like on acid,