Tag Archives: Drinking

Drool Party

{Apr 22, 2024}

One night a year in early July, the men and boys in swimsuits squat at the pool’s ledge to await two lifeguards’ whistles. The chlorine is all they smell, the burbling water is all they hear and—blindfolded—they see only black.… more

Alternate Route Suggested

FICTION by AnnElise Hatjakes

{Mar 24, 2021}

Kenny was twenty-one when his son was born, and now at twenty-two, he regularly revised the last several months, envisioning himself as an author of the choose your own adventure books he read when he was younger.… more

Master Plan

FICTION by John Meyers

{Jul 8, 2019}

I will sit in my company’s unfinished office space with a woman I hardly know and tell her everything about me, from the most deeply personal details to the most inconsequential. During our interaction I will drink high-quality gin to facilitate the telling.… more

Bittermoon

FICTION by Joel Wayne

{Jan 28, 2019}

Drunk and jealous in an exotic locale, he wonders: “What’s the opposite of a honeymoon?”… more

Sparrows

FICTION by Zsombor Aurél Biró (translated by Timea Balogh)

{Dec 19, 2018}

“Meanwhile I’m thinking about how this is what a rehabilitated heroin addict should look like. Not like me, or the others. Imi has a job, money, a fiancé. In short, a life. It’s all worked out for him. Of course, it all depends on your perspective. I’m alive, so if we look at it that way, it worked out for me too.”… more

How to Pick Up Beautiful Women

FICTION by Max Hipp

{Sep 3, 2018}

Were instead of are, as if beauty fades with time, which is not what you want a beautiful woman to think about when you are trying to enter her life. You don’t want her thinking about death the way you do. That’s no way to find your Imago.… more