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John Estes: Awrack and Awry

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

She had hidden or cut up her credit cards, but that didn’t in any way diminish the desire to acquire, what her old Uncle Ralph had called The Havies. Today it is an iPod shuffle, which she’s sure if only she had that it would help her get to the gym more often, as they […]

Filed Under: Contributors 91, Fiction, Fiction 91, Issue 91 Tagged With: Contributors 91, Fiction, Fiction 91, John Estes

Sean Carney: Super Man

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

Last month I almost choked to death on a peanut butter cracker alone in my apartment. And that will really make you stop and think about things. One of which is maybe it’s time for me to stop living alone, if only so that someone will scream when they discover my corpse. And that’s all […]

Filed Under: Contributors 91, Fiction, Fiction 91, Issue 91 Tagged With: Contributors 91, Fiction, Fiction 91, Sean Carney

Christopher Miller: ∞ is an Algorithm

October 27, 2014 by PBQ

Last September at the Burning Man festival’s closing ceremony, to test the efficacy of his newest leptites & programmable molecules (nanoids as some like to call them), Philosopher Jack Stone stood beneath the giant wooden effigy as it was consumed in what’s become the largest controlled outdoor burn on the planet. Human attendees, for various […]

Filed Under: Contributors 90, Fiction, Fiction 90, Issue 90 Tagged With: Christopher Miller, Contributors 90, Fiction, Fiction 90

Victoria Large: Calls

October 27, 2014 by PBQ

Paul didn’t know what the music was at first, only that it woke him up. His half-conscious mind had run through a few possibilities – something from a dream, or from his clock radio, customarily turned up a few notches too loud and tuned to a rock station, all the better to shock him back […]

Filed Under: Contributors 90, Fiction, Fiction 90, Issue 90 Tagged With: Contributors, Contributors 90, Fiction, Victoria Large

Dina Guidubaldi: Press Repeat

October 27, 2014 by PBQ

     I knew this place would exist someday, back when things the size of quarters came in boxes the size of shoes. So now there are manmade trash mountains, and now I emerge from my solar penthouse every sunset and watch the workers roving like machines over the heaps of bottles and cans. They do it […]

Filed Under: Contributors 90, Fiction, Fiction 90, Issue 90 Tagged With: Contributors 90, Dina Guidubaldi, Fiction, Fiction 90

Sarra Alpert: Will Tell You Later

October 27, 2014 by PBQ

Username: metzger86 Why You Should Get To Know Me: I have firmly convinced myself — against all odds and manners of social conditioning and control — that our culture, society, and “civilization” are not only absurd and illegitimate but also unreal. Yes. Un-real. I am not speaking metaphorically. This is the world of bad dreams, […]

Filed Under: Contributors 90, Fiction, Fiction 90, Issue 90 Tagged With: Contributors 90, Fiction, Fiction 90, Sarra Alpert

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