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August 2, 2018
Louche Empire
He sniffs his fingers and eyes the waiter. Our church has no bells. They call it virtue signaling, this thirst for recognition. What is this hunger?…
August 2, 2018
The Muse
Music: that's what this was all about. That's why I currently find myself staring blankly at nothing in particular on this dismal, gray, post-Soviet…
August 1, 2018
“Desperation,” “Hiding the End,” “Limitless,” and Other Photos
Desperation Hiding the End Limitless To the Mystery Who Really Know!
August 1, 2018
Dummy’s Dummies, Part 3
XIX. Vincent, appearing stressed out, stands on the sidewalk in front of an elementary school. Children swarm past him onto waiting buses. Colin…
July 31, 2018
“Pluto Girl,” “Stars in My Eyes,” and “Diss Track in the Key of Childish Poet”
Pluto Girl Pluto Girl sings only songs without words. She lives in the far corner of space surrounded by rocks and ice. She is queen of the Unnamed.…
July 31, 2018
I’m Certain the Sun Will Shine
I looked down at the old woman with her Einstein-like hair resting on the top half of the pillow, her wrinkled eyelids loosely closed in a deep and…
July 30, 2018
“Corporate Whore,” “‘I Just Get on Better with Guys!,'” “Absence of Him,” and “The Would-Be Furry”
Corporate Whore She wants a career Damn you Not attention for her legs Her bum Or Breasts Oh These assets she'd trade…
July 30, 2018
Twenty Years After
Thank goodness for name badges. Some of the people looked the same, maybe just a few furrows in the brow or a receding hairline being the difference…
July 29, 2018
Swimming in Mercury
The problem really started when Colliver conjured up not the fiction of the great dead author (of which he was a diffident fan), but the author…
July 28, 2018
The Confessional
“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent." --- H.P. Lovecraft “It is for the best that the scenes I am about to describe have faded…