T 5111

She brushes her hair and he says, These pills won’t last. She doesn’t care and that’s really the problem, but neither of them will admit it.

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T 5110

He won the lottery and paid two million people to stand in a field and talk at once. He filmed it and called it The Problem. No one watched.

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T 5109

She tripped and held out her hand. I used to care, he sighed. And she narrowed her eyes until lasers came out and he was burned to charcoal.

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T 5108

There were no more apples at the market. Or pears. I walked home and there was a man with all the fruit. I called him an ass and he laughed.

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T 5107

She feels something on her leg. An umbrella. Belonging to a rather handsome man. You have a run in your stockings, he says. Without passion.

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T 5106

The noises wake him and he says, What’s that? but she’s not in the tent and his fear rises and he whimpers and she says, Grow up I’m peeing.

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T 5105

He could barely move in the pants. The sky opened up and it rained blood. Unnaturally tight, she said triumphantly and he lay down and died.

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The First Novel as Constipation

Every year around this time I find myself tired for no reason, as if my mind somehow feels the weight of the year and decides to shut down. Either that or I’m getting ready for winter by wanting to hibernate. It’s also a birthday thing. My birthday, which normally I don’t care much about (no […]

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The Year of the Short Story?

It was the Year of the Short Story? In 2011? Like, regionally somewhere, perhaps in a hamlet, or internationally? How did I miss this? Marketing is only good when the people who can make a difference know they need to help you market something. Right? Or is ignorance bliss? After all, I was only 4 […]

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