Fiction & Poetry
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Tryouts
Tentacles, once fingers, squirm madly from my left hand.
First Contact
Narian is alright, for an alien.
Arrythmia
Even before I started charging whatever I could get away with, I dated a man who liked to hurt me during sex.
thousandyardstare
In a skirmish line, the squad runs around the wire of the base. We will get gassed today.
All my lovers are junkies
Kenny comes down like a kite wrestling the wind, leaping from gust to gust, pushing skyward against the inevitable fall to earth, but always with an eye to the ground, looking for that patch of grass, a soft landing instead of concrete. Even an astronaut succumbs to gravity sometimes.
Unhappy Woman
Me and my little brother, Isaac, sat in our living room on a Tuesday. By “little brother,” I don’t mean “little,” but more like “younger.” And by “younger,” I don’t mean much younger. Unfortunately for us, I’m talking thirty-six and forty.
Buying Beer for Underaged Kids
I meet groups of 16 or 17 year olds a block away from the Circle K and they hand me too many crumpled bills to buy them a case of this or a mix bag of six packs to split when their parents think they’re at a friend’s house.
Among the Cattle / 15 Ways
For a while after the aliens came and started sucking everyone up into their little space ships there was a tremendous panic, but eventually it just became a thing that happened sometimes.
The Genius of Evil
Hello. My name is Todd, and I’m an alcoholic. I guess.
On Recent Paleontological Delights
“It is not often that we find megafauna of this size in tropical climates,” claimed the university paleontologist.