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October 27, 2023 | Fiction

The Equinox

Läilä Örken

Storm clouds dangle from the sky, the colour and consistency of wet cotton. Way back in the nineties, when long plastic sausages of cotton discs were a luxury that only the cornucopian West could

The Equinox photo
I LOVE FUNYUNS! + FLYING DILDO photo

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

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.