I last touched your skin six weeks ago. Except… I didn’t really. That skin I touched you with has been shed. This body has never really touched you. That moment is gone and it could only ever have been kept alive by renewal, by touching you again. And I can’t. You’ve slipped through my fingers forever.… more
Tag Archives: Violence
How to Hit a Woman
FICTION by Kelly KurtzhalsThat’s like a teacher on syllabus day going, here’s the textbook and by the way, I will stab you a couple of times throughout the semester with this knife. Post your responses to the discussion board. … more
On the Architecture of the Divine
FICTION by Steve PasseyThere is, in an anthill, a logic, an architecture, beyond what humans can conceive of. The ants, without thought, build from the order in their souls placed into them by the divine.… more
The Ogre
FICTION by Steve Passey“O Father! – chiefly known to me by Thy rod – mortal or immortal, here I die”
H. Melville “Moby Dick”… more
The Tap
FICTION by Christopher X. RyanA lustful boys follows a bloodlusting girl down dark roads and through empty fields in search of a man, any man, to satisfy her thirst for revenge. But when she forces him to step up, he finds that violence is not within his repertoire, and notions of power and control are inverted. … more
Replacement Child
FICTION by Tex GreshamPeople will do almost anything when they lose something like their wallet or phone or child. Sometimes these weakened people are my game.… more
Lights Out Helena: Montana, 1992
FICTION by Joel WayneOnscreen, George Bailey is wandering the streets of Bedford Falls, pacing by the house of the girl he is meant to be with but doesn’t know it yet. I cry when he shakes her like a rabbit. You think I don’t know that love?… more
Truth is Violence, Violence Truth
FICTION by Adam LockViolence is all about the truth. You have to hand it to violence — everyone knows where they are with it.… more
Snotknockers
FICTION by Alec CizakHe lowered his head to spear the bully in the chest, maybe knock him out of the game without the help of the refs. He imagined himself a rocket, charging through the cosmos. The moment his head made contact with Peewee, he realized why bullies always got what they wanted.… more
Force Equals Mass Times Acceleration
FICTION by Jennifer TodhunterWe talk about death, what it means to lose, but we don’t know how deep a loss can cut yet.… more
