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October 26, 2023 | Poetry

I LOVE FUNYUNS! + FLYING DILDO

Steve Fellner

I LOVE FUNYUNS!

I’m bewildered. 

Those onion-flavored, 
puffed up rings always
the last offering of the 
vending machine.
They are waiting on
my gentle tearing.

PepsiCo is more

I LOVE FUNYUNS! + FLYING DILDO photo
Incontrovertible Proof that You Are an Asshole photo

October 25, 2023 | Fiction

Incontrovertible Proof that You Are an Asshole

Michael Schoch

I would talk to the doll, then it would talk back to me, reflecting me to myself. And then I’d adjust my behavior accordingly. And, eventually, become a better, less annoying person. It’s kind of genius in a way?

Etymologies photo

October 24, 2023 | Fiction

Etymologies

Bud Jennings

Under a contrived knit brow, his eyes aimlessly drifted among a thicket of words, until they happened to stop on depling, noun, German to Middle English, a child born to older parents, and thus he found a new label for himself, more succinct than his mother’s change-of-life baby and less piercing than faggot, which Joey Novakis and his friends would blurt as they passed him in the school hallways.

Homage photo

October 24, 2023 | Poetry

Homage

Ebba Wiig

we forgive nothing
we forget nothing
we just ignore it
wasn’t that always
the problem?