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Resimulation
John Charles Wolf
Someone else is waiting by the door. I’m brushing dust off my jacket getting over to her, but really looking at my hand, which hasn’t stopped shaking in the past minute. I think I’m excited.
Bronson Alleys
Andrew F Sullivan
An excerpt from WASTE: a novel
Elvira Moon loved bowling. For four straight years, her team, the Blooming Broads, dominated the women’s league, decimating all opponents until Big Tina quit to start her own team, the South Side Splitters, with that bitch Claudia from Couscous or whatever country she’d arrived from in a banana crate.
Lighter Fluid
Eleanor Levine
She gave my dog lighter fluid.
She said my dog didn’t drink it because she put it there.
The dog drank it because it was an accident.
Where I Come From
Miles Preston-Clark
Whenever Amanda and I get into a fight she calls me poor. She tells me that, in my country, they sell nappy-headed dark skin girls like me for 20 silver coins and a healthy goat.
Divine Worship
Rebekah Lee
I noticed a tall man in front of me with a long umbrella hanging from his arm. He was watching the priest and listening. When we began the preparations for communion, the tall man threw himself onto his knees.
They Also Use Tools, and Are Capable of Making Plans
Juliana Gray
Look at those fucking crows, Mona said. She and Dan and I were sitting on our porch, drinking vodka tonics and staring at the view, which was pretty good with the sun going down and the corn in the field between our two houses almost ripe and ready to harvest.
Between the Lines
Denise Milstein
He was riding down the street like you, contramano, and the image came of you on your bike, and I wished for the dream of the flying bicycle to return, the one where I find you again.
This May Surprise You
Amy Silverberg
My friend, she wants to win a man over with a story. “He loves to read,” she says, “and I want to impress him. Could you write me something?”
Nothing Has a Location Until It Is Observed
Andrea Eberly
When Sophie arrived home from the Strange Charm concert, she realized she was now in possession of an uncomfortable secret. The next day at work it replayed in her mind at least a hundred times.
The Last of the Bonafide Virtuosos
Alex Blum
There’s hardly anywhere like Norton’s anymore, and no one like Norton. He sold phrases for special occasions out of a shop in Queens.
The Door Saga
Becky Bosshart
Chesterfield knocked with two eczematous knuckles—only a courtesy warning to let her know he was coming on in. This time he walked into a locked door.
Self Defense for Girls
Laurie Cedilnik
Sarah squeezed into a bathroom stall with Ralph. Outside her boyfriend sat at the bar, nursing yet another domestic beer.
Luck Come Undone
Jason Thayer
Hector was lucky and he knew it. And everyone else knew it too.
The Civilized Pirate
Sommer Schafer
He wasn’t expecting how strong they’d be with their pale soft hands and their petticoats and their bowties and their cummerbunds. But when they stormed the ship, they threw aside lacy parasols and let fall monoculars.
Bedtime Story
Doug Ramspeck
Sometimes the two memories grow conflated in her thoughts, especially in her dreams.
Trip the Light Fantastic
Craig Buchner
She almost said yes until she saw the stain.
Vigil at Fort Jesus
Derick Dupre
Nighttime near Fort Jesus. We point our phones heavenward and hear about the latest rave death.
The Lepidopterist
Kendra Fortmeyer
The killer dispatched the boyfriend easily in the kitchen, and then he had an idea.
America, This Is You
James Yates
This was a painstaking choreography of getting whacked in the balls.
Herman French
Eric Rosenblum
The one and only time I saw Herman French naked was when he was toweling off after a shower. Herman was my bunkmate two years ago at Camp Thunderbird. He had the smallest penis I’d ever seen.
I Lost My Orgasm
Hillary Leftwich
Maybe I dropped it as I struggle to hold the box of Munchkin donuts and the lukewarm cup of coffee in my hands that I brought for you. Even after you told me not to. Even after you told me you needed space.
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