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TrudyIT ALL STARTED three and a half weeks ago when Trudy died — four days after my tenth birthday. One day our beloved ...
06/08/2026

Trudy

IT ALL STARTED three and a half weeks ago when Trudy died — four days after my tenth birthday. One day our beloved family goldfish was swimming in her fish tank, her long translucent fins swishing along behind her, then the next day Trudy was belly up, eyes grayed over, her beautiful fins never to swoosh again. I was the first to find her....

IT ALL STARTED three and a half weeks ago when Trudy died — four days after my tenth birthday. One day our beloved family goldfish was swimming in her fish tank, her long translucent fins swishing …

MouserCornbread crumbs cascading Down hairless, burly chest Honey butter eulogy of afternoons Spent in-office Steel toe ...
06/01/2026

Mouser

Cornbread crumbs cascading Down hairless, burly chest Honey butter eulogy of afternoons Spent in-office Steel toe boots untied by the door From nights alone prodding factory floor Infants snooze in cribs or with wife I bashed a mouse’s skull in With the Pioneer-Woman’s bread knife Standing in the kitchen naked Feral & Australopithecan — RON ARBUCKLE A former minister, then machinist and now accountant, …...

Cornbread crumbs cascading Down hairless, burly chest Honey butter eulogy of afternoons Spent in-office Steel toe boots untied by the door From nights alone prodding factory floor Infants snooze in…

Age InKelly looked at the dark black shadows swirling along the inside of his right forearm, repulsed by their symmetry....
05/26/2026

Age In

Kelly looked at the dark black shadows swirling along the inside of his right forearm, repulsed by their symmetry. Wisps of gray shading traced the sharpest lines, adding dimension and depth and… despair. Two weeks since the last drops of the ink were driven under his skin and his tattoo was all but healed. But daily compliments from random strangers kept the needles’ sting from fading, and for that he was grateful in small measure....

Kelly looked at the dark black shadows swirling along the inside of his right forearm, repulsed by their symmetry. Wisps of gray shading traced the sharpest lines, adding dimension and depth and… d…

The Swallow As Seen From A Factory WindowFor nine long hours I believe that swallow is a prisoner of the air. It did not...
05/18/2026

The Swallow As Seen From A Factory Window

For nine long hours I believe that swallow is a prisoner of the air. It did not knot its tie this morning, did not read its paper. Nowhere in its soaring is one clue as to the cold razor cuffed across the chin or the bland kissfrom a wife.There's no sign aboveits tree branchesthat says simply, "Teamwork"....

For nine long hours I believe that swallow is a prisoner of the air. It did not knot its tie this morning, did not read its paper. Nowhere in its soaring is one clue as to the cold razor cuffed acr…

AshesBernice noticed the tumor before Stan did. “What is this squish?” “Don’t worry, I’ll never have t**s compared to yo...
05/11/2026

Ashes

Bernice noticed the tumor before Stan did. “What is this squish?” “Don’t worry, I’ll never have t**s compared to yours.” “It’s not your t**s.” The tumor spread up Stan’s chest and wrapped around his esophagus. Four times he checked into the hospital for what he called platinum milkshakes, which brought on vomiting, dry retching, then convulsions. The pain had to be worse than dying, he said....

Bernice noticed the tumor before Stan did. “What is this squish?” “Don’t worry, I’ll never have t**s compared to yours.” “It’s not your t**s.” The tumor spread up Stan’s chest and wrapped around hi…

RememberWhen you unearth a co**se and it’s still fresh, and you see it writhing with maggots and larvae and nymphs momen...
05/05/2026

Remember

When you unearth a co**se and it’s still fresh, and you see it writhing with maggots and larvae and nymphs moments from exploding into flies remember: this is their home, and you’re as much a disturbance to them as they are to you. Imagine the revulsion of a salesman stepping into your home unexpectedly, on a day you decided, f**k it, I’m not picking up dishes…...

When you unearth a co**se and it’s still fresh, and you see it writhing with maggots and larvae and nymphs moments from exploding into flies remember: this is their home, and you’re as much a distu…

No Onewe feed on the dead in the night wilderness of the apocalypse killed words cut throats of thoughts bullet marks on...
04/27/2026

No One

we feed on the dead in the night wilderness of the apocalypse killed words cut throats of thoughts bullet marks on the body of weightlessness attempt at silence blade of bite the torn mouth of heaven unpacks star teeth across the surface of darkness iron milk spills over the steppe cries of dead trees dead birds dead children no one will survive…...

we feed on the dead in the night wilderness of the apocalypse killed words cut throats of thoughts bullet marks on the body of weightlessness attempt at silence blade of bite the torn mouth of heav…

The Wisteria Falls Hideaway Inn“WISTERIA FALLS HIDEAWAY INN – let’s make your vacation a big win.” Marigold McTaft answe...
04/20/2026

The Wisteria Falls Hideaway Inn

“WISTERIA FALLS HIDEAWAY INN – let’s make your vacation a big win.” Marigold McTaft answered the phone behind the front desk moving from side to side in her swivel high chair grinning at Furman Chase, a long-time friend. It was a Friday night in June at the ten-room motel nestled in the mountains between the large Wisteria Falls waterfall and the little tourist town named for it....

“WISTERIA FALLS HIDEAWAY INN – let’s make your vacation a big win.” Marigold McTaft answered the phone behind the front desk moving from side to side in her swivel high chair grinning at Furman Cha…

My Doctor Says I Have a Special-Needs Placenta, and M. Night Shyamalan Can’t Write DialogueI will defend the city of Phi...
04/13/2026

My Doctor Says I Have a Special-Needs Placenta, and M. Night Shyamalan Can’t Write Dialogue

I will defend the city of Philadelphia/until the day I draw my last breath/go birds/so I am ethically obligated/therefore/to wholeheartedly espouse Philly’s native son/filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan. Unfortunately/M. Night Shyamalan can’t write dialogue/and I am not optimistic that this state of affairs/is ever going to change. I suppose peaking after your first film/must feel a certain way/but that is no excuse for creating the monstrosity/that is 2008 cinematic atrocity/...

I will defend the city of Philadelphia/until the day I draw my last breath/go birds/so I am ethically obligated/therefore/to wholeheartedly espouse Philly’s native son/filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan.…

Art HistoryAN AUTOMAT AT NOON. A comely redhead in a cornflower blue dress sits by the window, showing too much cleavage...
04/06/2026

Art History

AN AUTOMAT AT NOON. A comely redhead in a cornflower blue dress sits by the window, showing too much cleavage for 1958. A man on his lunchbreak at the next table, eying her hungrily as if she's the meatloaf special. A room with no other occupants. This painting must be worth eighty million, Howard says and I cringe at what a philistine he is, his lack of appreciation for color, shading, brushstroke, tone....

AN AUTOMAT AT NOON. A comely redhead in a cornflower blue dress sits by the window, showing too much cleavage for 1958. A man on his lunchbreak at the next table, eying her hungrily as if she& #8217…

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