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Nathan Leslie: It Can’t Hurt, Can It?

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

When I say “testify” I don’t mean this in any traditional slash Christian sense. No baptisms or the like. Nor do I mean this in the legal sense. I simply and directly am implying a simple and direct statement testifying as to the truth-quality of my position. I don’t mean to sound pretentious; I am […]

Filed Under: Contributors 91, Fiction, Fiction 91, Issue 91 Tagged With: Contributors 91, Fiction, Fiction 91, Nathan Leslie

B.G. Firmani: How I Married Philip Glass

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

Actually I was thinking that I probably shouldn’t write about how I married Phil, because he was married four times before I ever met him, which isn’t exactly what you’d call a model of single-mindedness, and what if I accidentally provide other women with a kind of instructional manual on the subject? But you know […]

Filed Under: Contributors 91, Fiction, Fiction 91, Issue 91 Tagged With: B.G. Firmani, Contributors 91, Fiction, Fiction 91

John Estes: Density

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

Patrick wanted some room to let the story stretch its legs a little, didn’t think a screenplay would be enough, not with five main characters and the memory of a dragon lady. After finishing the course at Bennetville Community College, with the approval of Mr. Leonard Strichnine in hand, however, he felt amply able to […]

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

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

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