The goddamn football stadium and the streets are filled with ads and flags supporting future brain damage survivors and NFL flunkies. Never mind the fact all that brain injury makes them into sad, violent, adult children. That doesn’t matter. What does matter?… Continue Reading
“Buck up, Slim” was his catchphrase. It was the kind of catchphrase that stuck. The kind that gets hung on you like a life sentence in a show that started in black and white and went technicolor in season 2.… Continue Reading
What he remembered was the earth unwinding below him like a bedsheet, patched in yellow and green. All intoxication blown away by the killing wind. He saw it clearly. The world was vaster and more various than anyone knew.… Continue Reading
Obviously I couldn’t have his baby, because he was who he was, but also because the idea of existing in the world as a pregnant man made me sick to my stomach, and I’d been on testosterone for so many years it could cripple the tiny, growing thing.… Continue Reading
I wanted stories with working class people fed up with the daily grind, waking up to the idea that our economic system is built for a small fraction of people and that the American Dream is a kind of lullaby they sing to us to keep us showing up to work on time.… Continue Reading
Life is a fucking roo and you’ve got to punch it in the dick before it knocks you out.… Continue Reading
He’s been dead maybe ten minutes. Maybe thirty. Long enough for the ice in his Jameson-and-ginger to turn thin, to drift apart, their edges fraying into the map of something broken.… Continue Reading
And—in that moment—she thought she was happy, but really, she was just drunk… Continue Reading
Knock, knock, you said. What? I said. You’re supposed to say who’s there, you said. Oh, I said, sorry, go again. No, you said, you ruined it.… Continue Reading
The Chief Reactor Dynamics Analyst for the Molten Chloride Fast Reactor Prototype Unit at Idaho National Laboratory is a prudent man. He is a pensive man. He is a hardworking and fastidious man. He is not the sort of man who should be dreaming the dreams he’s dreaming.… Continue Reading