Painted Bride Quarterly

J. Oscar Franzen

J. Oscar Franzen: Did You Hear About Some Woman With    an Ear Growing in her Arm?

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I heard she’s preggers, and the baby ear got tablesawed by tortilla chip fragments. Ear got into the bloodstream somehow. Ended up elbowside. *          *          * No, she’s a mule trafficking in Ecuadorian ears. *          *          * Wrong-o.  I heard the boyfriend dryhumped her elbow. Little swimmers got into her skin […]