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War Whips It Out in Public
which may give you a better sense of what I'm looking for here at FCAC. War Whips it Out in Public In the night a war steps in the room, a toadying lickspittle war with bad teeth, a savior complex and spindly … Continue reading
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Tin Pedals, fiction by Lucas Flatt
Shuck’s plan was fucking stupid. Everybody told him so, though “everyone” meant only his guilty conscience and the imaginary Jiminy Cricket voices of his semi-girlfriend Maggie and best friend Doc and his dog Biscuit, all in his head saying: “Jesus … Continue reading
Budweiser Blues, fiction by Cecile Dixon
Budweiser Blues by Cecile Dixon Larry When my olé lady, Kourtney run off with Dwayne, I took to drinking beer. A lot of beer. I still got up every morning and went to work. My brother Jimmy’s sheet rock business didn’t … Continue reading
Epiphany, fiction by Larry Thacker
Epiphany. That’s exactly what it was like. An epiphany. It was 2:46 in the morning. I know this because I’d started playing a little game with myself trying to guess the time at night as I woke up off and … Continue reading
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The Colonel, fiction by Kurt Taylor
A hundred times the Colonel had walked into Rip’s barber shop and nobody had ever stared at him until now. The Colonel felt the tattooed kid’s eyes tracking him as he walked to the chair wearing his Army uniform.the Rip … Continue reading
The NIght Dick Clark Actually Died, fiction by F. John Sharp
Do you remember that time I swore I’d heard that Dick Clark had died and you said you hadn’t. I said, “It was on NBC, and why would NBC tell me Dick Clark was dead when Dick Clark wasn’t dead?” … Continue reading
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Two Poems, by Matthew Borczon
Something you don’t see every day Miller was telling me that his mother had used rope pulleys and a cement block to build the perfect suicide she had tied a plastic bag over her head then pushed the cement block off the bed and … Continue reading
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April 5, 2022, 11:13 PM, prose by Bart Solarczyk
I got the 2nd anniversary of Tami’s death creeping up on me in less than an hour, one tic past midnight. I have a sense of dread & rising anxiety, like I’m going to break when it arrives. It didn’t … Continue reading
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Her Hotel, fiction by Timothy Gager
She bought a hotel, on the ocean, because God told her to. For this, she needed help, so she turned to God, and gofundme.com to raise ten million dollars for the purchase. She decorated her hotel with stars and starfish, … Continue reading
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Fist Fight at Applebees, fiction by Dan Leach
I missed the beginning, but we know how it happens. Either the old man with the lazy eye said the wrong thing to the young man with the neck tattoo, or the other way around. I was there for the … Continue reading
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