I want to fuck a Trump voter. I want to rustle his thick brown hair through my fingers and I want to nibble on his ears. I want to run the back of my hand across his face and I want him to feel loved. I want to fuck a Trump voter. I want to […]
Fiction: Unconscious Thinking by Andy Segeral
Warning: This story features graphic content that is not suitable for work, minors or those who have yet to discover The Way to Happiness. If only the bus got off at the right stop. If only I stayed on the other side of the side walk. If only she didn’t make eye contact with me […]
Fiction: Whatever It Takes
There’s an ignored old sailing man in his great-granddaughter’s house who’s now too tattered to conquer the seas, too frail to even master the stairs, shut in this brand new brick Colonial-style house in the middle of Kansas. How he came here, passing through a series of exasperated “I’ve got too much going on already” […]
Fiction: This American Life-On-Closed Circuit by Shea Hennum
The pocket knife Allison Squibb had carried since she was thirteen was dull, and she strained as she cut into her arm to remove the small ident device lodged in the musculature, pressed tight against the skin on the underside of her elbow. Allison carved around the zit-sized bump and pulled out a small blinking […]
Fiction: Cleaning the Basement by Daniel Elkin
Willard sat in the oak breakfast nook trying to sink the remaining Oateeos floating mockingly in his bowl. “Damn dinghies got a hole in ‘em,” he thought as the clacking of his spoon got louder. “Willard!” came his wife’s shout floating down the stairs from the bedroom above, vaguely reminding him of the sound a […]
Fiction: Milking in the Evening by Daniel Elkin
Because loneliness had walked over him like like a toddler taking his first steps and solitude was a thud, hollow in his ears, Stephen spent days with the movements of goats, painstakingly imitating, mirroring — subtleties defined, generalities embraced. Alone, he had turned to the goats for companionship. Admiring their nonchalance when dealing with society, […]