My wife says I need to give a shit. I say I never understood that expression. Who would want to be given shit? She agrees that it’s a peculiar expression, but that’s beside the point.… more
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Understanding
FLASH FICTION by Kim MagowanShe thinks of the ending of Back to the Future, where Marty’s dad is suddenly cool and fashionable, because Marty’s time traveling has improved the course of the past, so the teenage version of his father, McFly, stood up to the bully instead of capitulating to him. Gretchen wonders what version of herself would now be chopping Brussels sprouts in half.… more
Bonnie McCorkle
FICTION by Kim MagowanHer virginity, such a fetishized thing when I had known her, something proudly and literally brandished had now become how so many others, including myself, had regarded our virginity: cumbersome, something to divest.… more
