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Slot Machine Suicide
I am out in Las Vegas with my dumb cousins and things have not gone well. It is not clear to me why, but Gil, Marie, and I just fight and fight and…
Demian
This is everything I remember. I was looking at conspiracy websites and something was different. The Internet had been hijacked and inter-dimensional…
Curmudgeon 3
Taxes are easy to criticize, because the rules and the rates are horrible. No person making under $100,000 adjusted for inflation should need more…
“Bibliotherapeutic Saudade” and “Duende of a Sylvan Art”
Bibliotherapeutic Saudade the books stand linear---a syzygy in the redux etagere the mellow beige sun halved by peach clouds, peeks at them…
Death Sign
Theodore (Ted) Bedford started post-tax return season number (????-been so many he couldn’t remember) the same as he did all the others; with a…
Fleeing the Demons
I race through the woods as the full moon lights a silvery path ahead. A chilly wind whips the maple tree branches into a frenzy, shaking the leaves.…
Harrows of the Scarab
Some people thought it looked more like an armadillo, while others thought the strange armored truck resembled a trilobite, but Fed literature…
Caught
“No, please let me---” she mumbled. Something heavy pressed on top of her; she couldn’t move. Being pinned against a strong, hard body, her arms in…
Flowers from the Market
The bottle was halfway to empty. I had hoped that I would feel less by now, but the pain continued, the numbing I had anticipated stayed out of…
“Blue Light,” “Evening Machines,” and “Street Flowers”
Blue Light Leaning against an old Chevrolet on Maudlin Street, I smoke a cigarette---hard---chuckling at the hisses and howls of alley cats beneath…
