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December 23, 2021
Irc
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…
December 22, 2021
“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…
December 22, 2021
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…
December 21, 2021
“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…
December 20, 2021
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…
December 20, 2021
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.…
December 19, 2021
“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…
December 19, 2021
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…
December 18, 2021
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……
December 18, 2021
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…