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I Wanted Violence
Jean Marie
The truth is i wanted to owe.
but i couldn't say that, that kind of available, that i wanted a knife at my throat demanding all my money, in the bag now;
Ocean View
Steven Volynets
A woman's shriek broke from the dining area, something in English trailing off into Italian.
Keekah laughed heartily, "the mafia wife is calling."
Weird Fishes
Andrew P. Heath
I was informed that it was going to be some kind of horror and pornography mash-up. Lisa promised a murder.
excerpt from Where When It Rains
John F Duffy
I held out my fist, “Midwest love.”
She touched her knuckles to mine.
DON'T MAKE ME ANGRY
Greg Gerke
Can I sue ABC and Universal Televison for making the Hulk’s transformation overly sexual? I ask a lawyer on Main Street, but he requests that I leave, he has to get a lice treatment.
WHAT'S SO HORRIBLE
Amy DeBellis
“What’s so horrible about being able to take all the emotions you don’t want to feel and just vomit them out of you, and then you’re clean, you’re done with them, you’re numbed out and high?”
“What’s so horrible about being able to get high on your own emptiness, on your strength and your willpower, on your superiority, on how you’re able to get by on so little, you may as well be made of air?”
Last Friday Night
Odelia Wu
Feels like the hour before closing at Chuck-E-Cheese.
The Invisible Official
Tyson Duffy
The bullies, they made him feel young, alive. He would never admit this to anyone, but he was fairly sure the other teachers, after a glass of wine or three, would concur.
We'll Be in Touch
Emma Burger
Every breakfast, lunch and dinner were meticulously documented, each square captioned with the day’s creation: superfood pumpkin risotto, fatty bananas (bananas and butter), avocado tomato mash, yummy liver and beets, creamy spinach and pear, soupy rice porridge, breast milk oatmeal, silky tofu, creamy vegetable soup
The Rose of No Man’s Land
Benjamin Bond West
“...symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum. Or so I told myself.” – VALIS
“There’s a rose that grows on no man’s land, and it’s wonderful to see” – The Rose of No
Angelspiritbaby94
Maxine Beiny
All Rachel ever wanted to be was a reality TV star. Rachel didn’t mind which show she ended up on, as long as she became famous and had at least 3 brand deals behind her.
The Music Is Beginning
Ella Fox-Martens
Alice scoops the teeth up and puts them back in her mouth, slipping them into the holes they were ripped from. She is not sure where else they would go.
Twin Tower Memes
Carly Ayres
I thought he’d text back “lolz.” Twin tower memes were funny now.
Schadenfreude
Andrew Worthington
Okay, you know how I like to go to the bathroom. We’ve talked about it at sessions over and over again.
Intractable
Josh Rank
The guy stood up straight as if physically smacked. I ran up behind her and pushed my finger against the inside of my sweatshirt and couldn’t think of anything productive to add so I just yelled, “Yeah!” and hiccuped.
Work’s a 4-Letter Word
Peppy Ooze
such as the obligatory Ramones cos of bullshit merch culture I thought and turned the hanger seeing Queen, Queen, Queen, Blur-n-Oasis, Queen, Wu-Tang, Queen, Nirvana, The Cure, Slayer, Joy Division
REPLY TO ALL
Greg Gerke
I didn’t say anything about your job or your Mark Twain or anything. There’s nothing wrong with working in a factory, there’s nothing wrong with bowling, there’s nothing wrong with having a Star Wars room…
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Her Lesser Work
Elizabeth Ellen
"[Her Lesser Work] is a collection of mordant and formally inventive stories circling themes of, let’s say, desire and escape within repressive structures."
-Walker Caplan, Literary Hub


