He watched them move about the kitchen. Who were these people? He couldn’t believe they were his parents. They certainly weren’t people. They were more like aliens pretending to be people based on a handful of old movies and a magazine ad for erectile dysfunction.… Continue Reading
The warden stood at the barbed guardrails of the south tower, looked upon the yard, and removed his cap. The December air chilled his nose, pinched his cheeks, and iced along his thinning scalp. And yet even as he shivered, he knew it was insufficient: this cold was not enough to make the prisoners wear the hats.… Continue Reading
There is grief five miles away and you’ve punched your fist in the wall. There is no turning back from this.… Continue Reading
It was a penis of the people, tireless, ever-alert, and dogged in pursuit of its goals. A hardworking penis with an elite upbringing and an outsider’s attitude. A penis of considerable girth and length, well above the national average in size and esteem. A penis steadfast in its beliefs and egalitarian in its interests, hung right but aimed straight at the center of the populace. A wholesome penis that you’d let pose with your baby at the state fair.… Continue Reading
Santiago de Compostela, Spain There is a café here in Santiago called Avante! frequented principally by students and post-grads, whose walls are near-to-exclusively covered in Leftist memorabilia. I have overheard some Americans—most recently a group of Patagonia-clad boys from Colorado—excitedly call it “the communist bar” as if perhaps the First International were meeting down in… Continue Reading
Vampires are real. UFOs are real. Ghosts are most definitely real. Werewolves are not real.… Continue Reading
At night, the fox continues to call. She wraps the back of her throat along the crescent moon and her teeth fall out of her mouth to form galaxies.… Continue Reading
Yes, I object to your taping my remarks. You might try listening instead.… Continue Reading
She’d been alone so long that she didn’t know how to bring men in from the periphery. They couldn’t see who she was. They didn’t last.… Continue Reading
When the virus comes out here, it will not introduce itself. It will not breathe its name into a microphone or echo out over the loudspeakers. It will creep in quietly, moving to an unheard rhythm.… Continue Reading