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When the Earth was still just a lava-spewing ball, Perdure’s own sun went supernova. Before that event, the primary species had metamorphosed to pure…


“Fentanyl Fucks So Good,” “On the Cenotaph for Small Fates,” “Checking in on Tom Sawyer,” and “The Last Prophecy of Nostradamus”

Fentanyl Fucks So Good The Somalis brought it. I don’t know where they got it. They’re coming in from Edmonton, driving slow at 3am. They are coming…


Popobawa, Part 2

VIII. Columnar piles of CS/CN gas eddied between buildings catching a weird coronal haze from the sliver of moon. Popobawa found the streets clear as…


“Millstones,” “Medic,” and “Castor Oil”

Millstones "Why worry about a speck in your brother’s eye when you have a plank in your own?" Matthew 7:3 What if beside the plank in your eye…


Curmudgeon 4

How to convince me that you are a bad writer or speaker: “Take” preceded by fast, quick or hot. “Convo,” “conversate,” or “commentate.” “Pricing” or…


Gross-Breesen, Part 5

DISSOLVE---FLASH FORWARD INT. LIVING ROOM Reunioners still talking. MARLENE (to Joseph) That was your proposal to Esther? JOSEPH It seemed to work.…


“Red-Letter Day,” “Report from the Mother Ship,” “Havana, 1953,” and Other Poems

Red-Letter Day In the audiologist’s waiting room, I read an article about a “detectorist,” a Welsh school custodian whose metal detector signaled a…


The Perfect Santa, Part 3

Once home, they both had a nap. Albert awoke to a noise of something being dragged on the floor. He came downstairs to find Hilda pulling a similar…


At Room Temperature

One day, a little whore from La Ballesta Street in Madrid told me that she grabbed my cock in a cocktail bar, pulling it up to a floor above the……


Treehouse

When he told me that he had a surprise weekend for me, I thought he had booked a hotel, a nice meal, time to spend wandering around a town we had…