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In San Felipe
barry blumenfeld

"For days now, Blanche had been expecting something to happen.  She went about things as usual, going to work at the Valhalla Drinx where she was a hat-check girl, eating lunch at the truck-stop next door"

Archenemy
Marcel Jolley

"I am, for the most part, unremarkable.  I am twenty-six years old, a conservative thirty pounds overweight, and I work as a clerk for Kinko’s.  The company prefers “copy artist,” but in the interest of honest self-appraisal, I decline the title."

Fate of Faith or “The Opium of the People”
suzanne nielsen

"I go to the health club most mornings at 7 a.m.  This isn’t a fancy club by any means; the carpet stains leave leery shadows while fans bolted and padlocked to the half wall in front of the side-by-side 20 treadmills squeak rusty sounds from human sweat"

HERE BE MONSTERS
c.c. dust

"After the mad excesses of the last two years, the nonstop circuses, the Hollywood flirtations, the sexual canoodlings… after all that came
crashing down…after he found himself standing on a ledge outside his room in the fabled Chateau Marmot,"

Happy &%$# Birthday
kabuki con carne

"October 5th - It seems like an okay day to have a birthday. Clearly it’s better than October 31st. Screw Halloween. "

Fill Out Form
franky newhart

"The greatest mindfucker in Jersey was a girl named Maria. I never understood why people were so into this girl's looks. Talking about "wanting to fuck her." was the moral equivalent of jerking off on a Barbie doll."

Shoreline
timothy gager

"She stands over the kitchen counter wearing a white dress with flowers.  It is a dress he remembers from the time of their beginning.  He would palm her knee.   They sat, his bare feet on top of hers.  The days were only just minutes
then."


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