by Carl Miller Daniels knuckles crackling and toes tingling, the sexy naked athletic big-dicked teenage boy lifted a big bale of hay from a stack in the barn and tossed that bale of hay against the wall. it hit with a thud and fell onto the floor. “not bad,” the sexy naked athletic big-dicked teenage …
Aug 15
Make it Feel True
by Misti Rainwater-Lites Write me and tell me I am fierce with reality I am star strong and night deep and I don’t have to keep all these books and lipsticks and ironic t-shirts to be interesting. Write me and tell me I am so pretty in the eye so sweet in the song you …
Aug 15
Daily Bread
by Misti Rainwater-Lites I’m fat in my purple shower cap and leopard print gown drinking hot coffee from a California mug. I’m such a cliche, a middle-aged woman who gave too much to love and sits on her ass staring forty in the face, wretched with self-loathing and regret. I should not have flashed those …
Aug 15
Two sides
by Josh Olsen “Sometimes,” my grandfather hesitantly confessed from his bed, “I wonder if we made the right choice keeping you away from your father.” But my grandmother quickly interjected, “Of course we made the right choice!” and that was the end of the conversation. I wasn’t exactly shocked by what my grandfather had stated. …
Aug 15
Soft
by Josh Olsen A dog was lying in the middle of 96. A dead dog. Black and white. Shaggy. It wasn’t the first time I’d seen a dead dog. Hell, it wasn’t even the first time I’d seen a dead dog on that very same strip of highway. But this time the shock of it …
Aug 15
Under Douche Bag
by Shali Nicholas List the guy who tosses his soda can out of the car on the freeway. List the guy who tosses his beer can out of the car on the freeway. List artists who randomly slap paint globs on canvas and then charge $300 for it. List Andy Warhol. List the guy who …
Aug 15
Buried Treasure
by Karley de la Filth “Oh my God, Mags! Why doesn’t anyone know this?” Frankie yelled from inside the dumpster. It was pitch black outside, somewhere between midnight and morning. The a.m. before the sunrise. Maggie sat in the passenger seat of her new boyfriend’s car, her legs hanging out the open door. She had …
Aug 15
Dear Dr Catfish
from the desk of Dr Catfish McDaris Dear Dr Catfish, Just to piss off my little sister, I shoved her Barbie doll up my ass. I couldn’t get it out, finally I told my dad. He laughed so hard he passed out. My mom called an ambulance for both of us. My asshole seems stretched …
Aug 15
Upon Summary Dismissal from the Faculty of a Tenth-Rate “University” in the Frozen Industrial Manchurian Wastes
by Tom Bradley Dear Dean Dung: Short of injuring my large person, there’s nothing bad China can do to me. Your country is impotent in terms of psychological retribution. You probably think that, as a result of this deportation you’ve so shiftily arranged for me, I’ll have to go home in shame to ostracism and …
Aug 15
Norman – Return to Saltley Gate
by Nick Gerrard When I was a younger man, myself and a group of friends lived in South Birmingham. We shared old run down Victorian houses, rented out as bedsits. They were cheap, which is just as well, as we had no paid work as such. The factories had all been closed down, but we …