Sometimes it’s too much, just too much. Really, God, if you’re up there, I just don’t know what’s wrong with you, sometimes. Can’t you give a Jew a break?… more
Category Archives: FICTION
please don’t leave me
FICTION by Erika SpadavecchiaI was suicidal and bored like every summer in Portland, barely alive. Jonathan had a blonde wife who wanted a new kitchen. I gave him head after he bought me a burrito from Taco Bell and before he told me his wife was pregnant with his third child.… more
Flipped
FICTION by Sheldon Lee ComptonThe movie took on a dissolving pattern, the square screen going soft at the corners, rounding off and he thought not of what he’d done, but what he hadn’t done. And more about what he still could do to balance all that had happened.… more
Curve Ball
FICTION by Joshua D. WetjenAll these years on the road and I’ve never done anything like that before. What really unnerves me is how I barely feel guilty.… more
A Company Man
FICTION by Benjamin GibbonsMy supervisor, Brian Waggingham, says that Olfactory Response Experts are like taste-testers or test-drivers. Instead of dipping fries in new condiments at Craft-Heinz or taking the latest Audi for a spin around a track, we smell cat feces and urine.… more
Barricade
FICTION by Hollis BlackProminent signage warned that the home was protected by “Smith and Wesson,” and the owner had six good reasons to stay away. Walter Jesup didn’t need to spray and pray. He was a crack shot ever since his service days.… more
Nemesis
FICTION by Nicholas De MarinoI don’t want to throw up in front of Medusa again, but she outranks me. “Are you really gonna do this?” she asks like it’s the first time. But it’s not.… more
The Heat Always Rises
FICTION by George OleksandrovychWhile most people came to the sauna to unwind, Ivan came to dominate.… more
The 11th
FICTION by Kate MaxlowThe 11th hole tends to be where a kid admits their suicidal ideation, so that’ll slow things down. Anyway, you may have to provide an extra ball if it goes too deep into the water. We’ve put up some netting, but it only seems to work about half the time.… more
Anniversary Hit
FICTION by John McMahonWe’re not going to do him like in Buffalo. Does this look like fucking Buffalo? Is there four feet of snow on the ground? You see any rusted-out Camaros parked in front of pawn shops out here? This has got to look like an accident.… more
