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Automatic Birds / Spontaneous Generation
Automatic Birds
We were lying on the couch together, listening to the birds sing.
“They don’t sound real,” I said. “When I listen to their voices, all I hear is synthesizers.
The Passion
Prologue
The Man Who Was Legion Testifies
I used to live over there, beyond those hills, in the catacombs, and sleep on the soft earth of fresh graves. I used to throw myself on t
Case #410113
(Editor’s note: Found below is some superhero (?)-themed flash fiction. It uses a google form to generate a story, which is found at the bottom of the post. The most dominan
The Eekology of Muckrakers
69 in ’68 (Or: Hard Times for Black Boys)
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I let his cum settle on my tongue, but all I could taste was ash.
“Come on Chip,” I thought. “You’re a sommelier. Savor this.”
I let the jism congeal a bit, and then
Haunted Harambe: A Millennial Ghost Story
“I have a friend who saw his ghost.”
“Whose ghost?”
“Harambe’s.”
“You have a friend who saw the ghost of a dead gorilla?”
“Well, felt his ghost anyway. Fe
Full Bloom, Part I
WATCH CLIP: “Intervention”
INTERVENTION
Monday
“Ok, Vantrice,” I said, wheezing as I exhaled the way my therapist had showed me, “You have five minutes.”
“Five minutes?!
The Comedy Beyond Hope
With apologies to Dante Alighieri, the saints, the penitent, and all of the damned.
I
Dante Dreams of a Return to Hell
Somewhere in his home in Florence there is a scrap of
Suicides of Men I Never Knew
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Memories of an 84 Year Old Co-Worker
They were together 18 years, and never married.
One night, after they had both been drinking, they had a fight.
He told her he was goin
Lebensunwertes Leben
“I wish you could get a prescription for a suicide pill.” He depressed the gas pedal slightly, and we inched forward, a foot or so closer to the drive thru order box. While he