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,
Bad Dream Coma
A man thought he shot a deer. It was actually his brother.
Fuck This and Fuck You
Beaten piss dog alley way hosts the litter of the damned
Like candles in a study he’d’ve liked to have.
Progress
Most people
Do not know
That the Rule of Thumb
Some man with a crew cut vs. a woman with a pixie cut while the salisbury steak simmers. Mmm, salisbury steak.
You are a hungry man in the year 1953 who just came home from work / the Korean War.