Fiction – Page 9 – cereal after sex

Those barriers, those watch towers, those rows of razor wire are grim reminders of human selfishness, the God negative and… Read more.

The Lobster Guy (Seven)

Truman took in a shocked breath and sat back in the booth. “You just blew my mind, my eerie lobster… Read more.

“We’re going to spend the day together. And despite your crushing heartbreak at the hands and mouth and other unspeakable… Read more.

He wanted to fly to Sri Lanka or Yemen or maybe all the way to Pluto in space and beyond,… Read more.

“I can tell you ache for my burst of plasma. Release yourself to me now, and later, when you are… Read more.

Excerpt: The moronic monotony of it all was murder, Truman thought to himself, as he robotically scanned groceries, pushed buttons,… Read more.

Excerpt: “I could, and I would if I lived there instead of this shithole. I would eat lobster every damn… Read more.

Off to El Paso I went to El Paso. It was some summer of love and it was hotter than… Read more.

The Unexpected Meeting When things had quieted down and most of the other stormtroopers were settling into the barracks for… Read more.

I went down to the river. The mighty Pecos River that wasn’t so mighty. Maybe like me. I stood on… Read more.

In a previous life I had been an oven salesman in Omaha spending my livid, blank days doling out shiny… Read more.

The boy wanted to end it all right then and there, he thought to himself. He wanted to fall away… Read more.