A Prayer for Richard Power
Believe it or not, many Christians come to pray that God kill them. I want no part of that theology, so please say a different prayer for me. Pray…
Zo’ar
I hadn’t expected Dad to offer us up. The strangers had arrived only the day before. Both men were handsome, to be sure; my sister and I had both…
Harvest in Haran
As Rachel walked up, Jacob asked himself, “I wonder what’s longer; her hair or her legs?” She was his cousin, yes, but a knockout is a knockout. A…
The Note the Shooter Left Behind (God-Given)
God gave me this agony To bring me nearer to Him God silenced the cacophony And sent a righteous hymn Satan gave me this pleasure To distract me from…
A Shitty Fucking Poem I Didn’t Write Called “Erotony”
She’d given good head, so it made sense to remove her teeth This way, too, she’d always be honest---never bite her tongue The shocks of blue flanking…
Trigger Finger
Last night, I propped up my laptop, the laptop I am writing this on, in my bathroom sink and put on some porn. I looked at myself in the big mirror…
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…
Cracking
Can you ever feel yourself cracking? Feel your brain slowly sliding open like two tectonic plates hellbent on creating a gulf in the ocean? It is…
Tracking a Lost Day
Yesterday, a Saturday, was a day lost entirely to depression. Very occasionally, this happens. Here, I will attempt to document it, and in so doing…
Three Mornings After from Last Summer
June I woke up hungover in Nashville today. It was hot as hell and I caught one of those Southern cockroaches in my room. Most of the day was spent…
