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Tag Archives: Fiction
Whorehopper, fiction by Liz Frazier
“I ain’t never seen the beat, her living up there like that. Her and Woody both. They ain’t got no toilet paper. No wash rags. The bedspreads have got dog shit on them. I’m telling you, it’s a wonder they don’t … Continue reading
Girls of Michigan, by Gary V.Powell
It was an era of incivility; a mean time when lines were drawn and people picked sides. A few lived large while most teetered on the precipice. In those days, I ran with a rough crowd, rowdy guys who played … Continue reading
Dead Head, fiction by J.L. Smith
Tonight of all nights Dottie had to go and develop a mind of her own. Gears ground when he shifted. Brakes squealed — air hissed from a hydraulic system that needed an overhaul. Shocks worn so thin he felt every … Continue reading
Good Pussy and Jerry and Kildow, fiction by William Pancoast
This town got any good pussy? was the first thing I ever heard Kildow say. New hires Jerry and Kildow had joined us on a job 100 miles northeast of Columbus seeding a golf course and there they were at … Continue reading
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Building a Church, fiction by Lara Konesky
He was quite certain that life mostly was nothing but creation and evolution. Boys were supposed to become men and all that shit, and the men build families and houses and empires. He thought a lot about the word man, and the … Continue reading
The Fire, fiction by Rod Siino
On the day of the fire, my father and I stood in the snowy parking lot of my apartment complex and watched the water from the hoses transform my basement unit into a wading pool. The smoke escaping from the … Continue reading
Quickmires, fiction by Mark Staniforth
The obituaries made the Quickmires out to be good people: hard-working, good-to-honest, God-fearing country folk — all that shit. They spun more fine words once they were gone than the family ever had hurled at them as they preached their … Continue reading
Tag-A-Long, fiction by Misty Marie Rae Skaggs
My fuzzy, earliest memories unfold in a sprawling house on a hill. A house situated at the peak of a ridge, overlooking a bright green holler we filled with corn and tomatoes and beans and a strawberry patch I loved … Continue reading
Her Daddy's Money, fiction by William Matthew McCarter
Her Daddy’s Money was the hottest rock club in the Parkland; filled with Technicolor brilliance; a kaleidoscope of lights pulsing to the beat of primal music that penetrated and inundated the senses as it changed the milky white skin of … Continue reading
Poor Town, fiction by Kathryn Kulpa
It’s a poor town. Garbage piles up on sidewalks, bursting out of split bags, sour and milky donut shop coffee running in brackish rivers to the curb. Nobody comes to pick up the garbage, or sometimes they do, not every … Continue reading
