Plain and Simple / The Year of Un-Magical Thinking
What choice
really
but to tell our stories
in a cruder form
The Cure for Fun
They were all thin and most of them weak, but they had large heads. Their bodies were young, their skin smooth and soft.
White Fuyūrei
BRRRRNNNNGG
“What. The. Fuck.”
Richie’s Vacation
Richie was sitting in his mail truck, eating a spicy chicken sandwich, when he got a text from his mom that said his old best friend from middle school was dead.
WHY WOULD I WRITE ANOTHER DAMN POEM! / BEAUTIFUL
Is anyone going to pay me for it, give me a couple of hours
with their body (if they’re a sexy young woman), or invite me
over for lobster thermador and a movie on their wide screen TV?
The Goof, Meredith
Meredith, the woman who hit Gabe with her car, is still in the living room, sitting in the chair possessed by the spirit of Grace’s dead grandmother.
Misery Loves Company – May 21, 2021
The above video is an archive of the latest edition of the Misery Loves Company social reading series.
Dead man’s hands
“Scratch me”, they whisper as you stand on the bus and the urge grows stronger but the crowd grows bigger and the logistics more impossible, leaving you with this unbearable yearning.
monica
monica is my best friend and i have loved her secretly since middle school.
Somewhere in there, a killing / the damage could not fully be articulated
never wd
b
ok