Birthday Boy

…And a channel opened between her and me, but shit I mean to tell you I was like holding my breath as I’m cutting and she’s telling me about her and Brian and if I hadn’t been cutting her hair I would have been crying so hard, but I knew if I let it out I wouldn’t be able to finish and the channel would close…Continue Reading

Kiss Those Days Goodbye

An old man is confronted with an existential terror encroaching upon his land.Continue Reading

Luckily, There’s a Fix

Once upon a time, the mad world got even madder, and cheeseburgers started falling from the sky. Continue Reading

TWO STORIES

Two people climb up the sides of Mount Coffin on a dusky-dark November morning, only a half-mile apart, though they don’t know about each other yet.Continue Reading

Loose Stitch, 1991

It was a clear vision, a desire to be changed by something. Continue Reading

Rescuing Jacobi

Saturday, 3:20 PM. The woods behind school. Our plan to get stoned hits a snag when Danny and I happen upon a four-foot-deep hole, and stand peering down at our teacher, Mr. Jacobi, immobile at the bottom. An evil, booze-infused smell fills the air.Continue Reading

Fourth and Inches

He still woke up with blood in his mouth, the taste of the mouthguard, turf, the smell of someone’s cleat or the stink of pads or a jockstrap, and the blood was real. Still woke up as if he were under that pile of bodies, fourth and inches on that game-winning drive.Continue Reading

Domestic Punk

Welcome to the bubbling river idiot. Welcome to all idiots upon the river. It’s the day on which the bodies will be buoys in their tubes.Continue Reading

Belonged to Someone

And the void opened up in my mind, a vast blankness at the edge of a bright red line of boundary, and I didn’t fully understand.Continue Reading

Gable Massey Makes a Movie

He wanted to make a movie about love… He didn’t know when to turn the camera off.Continue Reading