Fiction & Poetry
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The Memory Detective
You’re waking up in your car in a Target parking lot on a Sunday.
On Seeing a Chicken Hawk Being Raised Among Pullets
Much easier to just be honest, tell the truth and why not
Vivica McDonalds: Enemy of the Wood Chipper
Vivica Shertogenbosch’s life was a struggle to escape the metaphysical bog she was plunged into at the age of five when her parents were devoured by a wood chipper at a landscaping expo in Tulsa.
The Lasso
It’s nobody’s fault dad died on The Lasso.
Fever Dream of an Incel
Alfy Maroney appeared abruptly before a restless studio audience on exceptionally shaky knees.
Archie Chamberlain: Upstater
That’s bullshit. Fear of the outside world my ass.
The Prisoners
The guard stood over the murderer’s hospital bed, occasionally glancing at the automatic shotgun propped up in the corner.
Gnaw wood
Leaning against my bathroom sink in the morning, I noticed for the first time how the light shone right through my hair, creating a wispy halo.
The hidden library
& Her smile is like an old bookshelf after rolling out
Illness Poems
Just before the final burning-out,
the Earth-lights flicker like a palpitating heart.