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Cowboys Don't Eat Their Horses
Steven W. McCarty
Before I was fired from Pinnacle Heating & Air, my boss had me drive to Limon to pick up the most expensive heat pump on the market at his other store. I almost felt bad for the guy he was
Plotlines from TV’s The Sopranos Re-Interpreted by Lydia Davis
Christian Hayden
The Mortadella
Sometimes when my husband and I argue he eats mortadella from the refrigerator. Other times he does not.
Rubenesque
There is a term for women of my wife’s size, a
Nelson from The Simpsons
Roshan Abraham
Nelson stands on the corner of two major intersections in Springfield. He stands inert, periodically blinking as if waiting for something to happen to him. Cars pass by and street lights flicker on
Vincent Peppers At The Podium
Shane Jones
Good morning. Vincent Peppers here and I just thought this day is a grave. Terrible words to have running through your head this early, but I can’t help it. I’m waiting for a scheduled 11 am
Transcript Sept. 14
Josh Mattson
Did you eat?
Yes.
There’s carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
Oh, good. I’ll have some later.
And walnuts.
Good.
How was work?
A man in Oklahoma was googling ‘carbon
6 Fictions
Mel Bosworth & Ryan Ridge
Recovery
After draining the toilet I put everything in the toilet. I drank a bottle of cough syrup and went outside. The cat spoke to birds. The birds spoke to bees. The bees spoke to me. They
Debt Collecting
Beau Golwitzer
Luis was walking home from work one evening when a man stepped in front of him, blocking his way on the sidewalk.
The man was dressed in a black coat and he was wearing a tan hat.
“I have
The New Chief of Cyclops Island Makes Five Promises
Lindsay Merbaum
The afternoon we chose the new chief of Cyclops Island, we stood in a circle at the top of the isle’s highest peak, heads drooping, as we squinted and sweated in the sun. The chief had positioned
Ruth vs. the Klingon
John Haggerty
Gene is fluent in Klingon, comfortable even with the tricky irregular conjugations of the stative verbs
To Speak of the Woe that is in Marriage by Robert Lowell
Suzanne Scanlon
Roxana and Robert are in therapy because they argue: about the baby, about the laundry, about therapy, and about therapy, too.
Horrible Things Happen
Adam Lefton
Can you teach an eighteen-year-old trauma?
Ultra Light
Sam Virzi
Pretty girls appeared from behind huge wooden poles below the boardwalk.
The Quandary of The Pointy Objects Annex
Zachary Tyler Vickers
It’s an uphill battle to transition to a lifestyle of blunt objects.
Dating a Somnambulist
Kate Folk
One night your boyfriend sleepwalks to the kitchen and brings a handful of M&Ms back to bed. You wake to bleary chocolate splotches on the sheets. You’re annoyed because they’re your nicest
Recent Books
Pregaming Grief
Danielle Chelosky
Is this new relationship self-sabotage in disguise, or is it the cure?
Backwardness
Garielle Lutz
Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Not be be missed!