Fiction & Poetry
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Ebb and Flow [Excerpt]
Mudflatgrounded, diamond-minds-racing — what’s it worth not to cut corners?
Pet Cemetery
I used to joke it was a bad omen when there was smoke rising from the chimney of the emergency veterinary clinic.
Watching Cement Dry / Cab Shorts
When I was 16, I worked for the Peoria Park District
and I had to get up at 5 a.m.
A Mercy
When people had a sick dog they called Pa because he wasn’t afraid of being hated.
1957
Welcome to The Shady Lady, a queer bar in San Pedro, California, across the railroad tracks, near the docks, in a back alley off Harbor Street.
La La Vetala
I first saw her at the stoplights by the cemetery. She was staring from the greyhound like a fine porcelain relic. Past and future choking in her silt-brown eyes, fell out of them just like a river.
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Watching the Black Death sequence in BELLADONNA OF SADNESS [Yamamoto, 1973] for the first time / Some say self-love is a skill
the slowly wasting
away into nothingness,
A (Backwoods) Noir Moral Parable About Death
You catch yourself staring at the clock waiting for 5, the start of your 4HL. “Don’t look at the clock!” Your elementary school wrestling coaches’ raspy voice rings out from the catacombs of your memories.
4 Poems
kathy found his name on a thumb tack board in the grocery store
she stopped in for some expensive cheese
right after she spent 300 dollars at the stationary store
and about a grand on wine
Hurricane season
Walt Disney slaps the inner swamp face of Orlando across the cheek
“I made you beautiful dammit”