It was a half-hour walk from the punkhouse to downtown Detroit. Kreg enjoyed walking with his friend. They would push each other in a shopping [...]

His back to me, Benjamin sits nude at the edge of the bed. I lie on my side a few feet behind him, also naked, [...]

Phil scratches his shriveled crotch through his Spiderman briefs, sitting at the coffee table with a brown, undersized “BEWARE OF POO” monkey shirt stretched above [...]

I sort of smile to keep from crying. This is as I was in love, a little gone, no different. I feel it all, the [...]

It isn’t until the bride and her husband pull into the gravel drive in front of the house in the shade of the cottonwood trees [...]

If you must know, then I’ll tell ‘ya how I did it…you don’t have to break my arm, you know…you lammergeyers! I already told you [...]

Originally published in Twisted Tongue Magazine issue #15 McEnroy could not believe his luck. Just as he was about to call it a day and try [...]

Sara creeps up to Bobo, one hand covered in a grooming mitt and the other holding scissors. “Hey! What are you doing?” I ask. The [...]

Institutionally sweaty and sterile. A deep thick concrete plaster scent. Her smell hovers above her as she sleeps. Thick scalp smell. Powder and a prickling [...]

Seville slouched at the end of the line near a timid child with sockets plunged so deep in his skull that the arches of his [...]

“You rolled it too tight.” I hand Anthony back his crooked joint, my throat parched. “You roll it next time,” he says. We pass bums [...]

Ken is lost on a train heading from Seattle toward Los Angeles. He needs to find a Barbie Girl before he reaches L.A. More importantly, [...]

Nacho had once been an avid practitioner of various new age and occult activities, but had recently given up all notions of an eternal soul [...]

The chairman of the Emergency Committee straightened his outlandishly fat polka-dot tie and nodded at me. He stood in the middle of a circle composed [...]

When the air rests a finger on the trigger and the grass stands at attention, the whole world holds its breath for fear of a change, afraid to shutter.