fiction
TagA Fistful of Tickets
Waggawolla Land! Jack Econski hated Waggawolla Land! He despised everything about the theme park, from its smarmy, saccharine image to its mascot Waggawolla Wallaby.
The End is Nigh
December was the month the world was supposed to end.
patrol 1: reading Farmer Boy made me never want to read anything fictional again and this is the result
There’s a bunch of talk that overloads my care nerves. I’ve got APD. I listen for machine gun fire or my own name.
The Getaway
My stepdad always had the advantage when things got violent.
Breeds Contempt
Dreamt a seemingly inexhaustible stream of people kept moving in to the flat.
Purge 1
What’s the matter with you? I’m all right. Thanks for mentioning it. God walks on all fours with icicles.
The Story of a Dog’s Body
This story is told from the point of view of a family dog who wakes up one morning in the grips of a debilitating depression.
Ain’t the Girl She Used to Be
“It worked last time. Quit your bitchin’ and get on with it.”
psychodrama
The table’s set for four. Kitchen is meatloaf scents, gravid with warm-rolls smell.
Abandoned: An Archive
As a way of closing out our November abandoned work theme and of commemorating the end of another largely wasted decade of my life, I’ve combed through more than ten years of Google Docs and dredged the fertilizer lagoon of my computer’s Documents folder to find as many of my aborted creative projects as possible.