Fiction
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___The featured image accompanying this piece, entitled ‘Spectrum’, has been used with the permission of artist, Robert Alan, a mixed media artist from New York
___The featured image accompanying this piece, entitled ‘Spectrum’, has been used with the permission of artist, Robert Alan, a mixed media artist from New York
he swears that the desert is laughing, mocking him with the distant wail of the wind, the hoot of an owl. each spray of dry
There were times when it seemed like all the beauty was sucked out of my life. This was one of them. It was cold and
Have you ever wanted to see a time-travelling lone wolf cop (“I’m a cop. From the future.”) crotch punch Hitler (a.k.a. Kung Führer) in an
I talk to myself. I have to. No one else will listen. No one else understands. Even if they did, I wouldn’t dare expose
Crying, I recall my father shudders, remembering tall thin men at the foot of the bed apparitions at night, faceless heads like pins, mostly arms,
I have not always had my medication to protect me from epilepsy, to keep my hand steady while I handled boiling grease and kitchen
She was suspicious that everyone in the room was melting. The man sitting at the coffee table directly in her line of sight was
I’d rather be a collapsed flower drenched in rainwater; succumbed to the well where wishes weld winning whims. though not alone as the barren heart
maybe beauty will remain an abstract dirge; a mantra to be ruminated over like a submerged leek becoming tender in warm water. as it seems
The first art Was not art, Rather, a color line shot through the dark, No more expression Than a plea for explanation. The grandest monuments
How do I write with these frantic fingers Left index plugs tearing right aorta Right hand holds closed ripping left ventricle I am hopelessly, entirely
I jack off to one of the pictures of her I have saved on my computer and after I’m done I send her a message to tell her
In our attic, among things, as it seems of past lives, lives a bitter God. When guests come to our house, we don’t mention him.
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