I could give a fuck-all about your grammar, ok, and I feel like a weirdo basically anywhere I go. By the way, it’s did, not done, and no e-d, or just e-d minus done or did. But never mind. I wonder what it’s like being you. Do you get sick of all these heads? What’s […]
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George Murray: Truck Stop Gothic
Once I cooked in a greasy roadside spoon just like the one off this highway – and one day during a lunch rush I swiped with my knife at a passing fly and cut it’s head clean off, right through where a neck should be. So stunned I was at realizing a long running dream […]
Sean McNally: Naked Texas Samples
1.) Naked There’s a man at the mall in a shoe store and he’s naked except for the shoes he’s trying on and looking at in that shoe mirror. “Do these shoes make me look fat?” he says to the clerk, who’s kneeling there on the floor lacing up another pair. A woman walks in […]
Ada Limón: There is a Woman at the Hardware Store
He thinks of his childhood like Greece white empty rooms shot through with veins of blue sky archways always leading somewhere, always following the cat. He has never been to Greece although he returns there whenever she asks him a direct question, his mind going white as bone. “Would you like your receipt?” And he […]
Ada Limón: Our Hero Confronts His Gray Suit
His suit that morning said, “I don’t appreciate this constant coming and going of you.” “Let us just make it to the breakfast table and then we can argue about what comes next,” the man answered the suit. During breakfast the suit ate more than usual and made the man feel uncomfortable in the slacks. […]
Ada Limón: On a Lunch Break Our Hero Accidentally Leaves the Office
He had no intention of walking across the bridge, but the traffic lights kept turning green and green again. He began to complain to them about being rushed, always getting the “go ahead,” the “thumbs up,” the big “okey dokey.” He saw the giant sign for Hertz Rent-A-Car and was suddenly jealous of the man […]