s’up I have a mtg soon need to prep u always have a mtg or an appt or need to boost your bromance ur such a bitch why fight with me when I’m […]
Second Date
Brody’s Blacksmith Shop serves until midnight and the dirty little taco truck (one town over) serves tacos to all the drunks until the drunks decide sex is an option. I brought him whiskey to the […]
The Headless Horseman Walks the Pumpkin Trail at the Lubbock Arboretum
So many possible faces. Once I was a man. Once I held my tiny niece’s hand, watched her fingers curl around my single forefinger. I remember the sweet pink of her skin, the scrunch of […]
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Dearest Caroline, We are absolutely thrilled with your flash entry “Wave Goodbye”. You manage to capture the roller coaster ride of a relationship, brief though it may be, in a flurry of well-chosen words all […]
Independence Day
It was hot, a humid stifling sweltering summer day. Hot enough to drive a man crazy, or in my dad’s case, pack up all his shit and drive off. I watched that truck rumble down […]
Personal Rejection Letter: The Deadname
Dear Ethan Leonard, Thank you for sending your latest impulse decision to sign yourself to another chain pizza restaurant’s points program. I appreciate your previous work of ignoring three brothers insulting you at a young […]
Your Girlfriend as an Eternal Fire
They will say no one knows how the burning started, no one knows really, they will dig up wiggle-worm earth from beneath her feet, rain it down upon her in steamshovel handfuls, and still she […]
skin
My grandmother is wrinkled leather that dried under the sun while my aunt is slightly smoother, lathered in lotion and tanned appropriately My skin is not as dark as theirs and I forget sometimes that […]
Rejection Letter: Annick Yerem
Dear Endometriosis, I remain extraordinarily bewildered that you have chosen me as a life-partner and feel that I am certainly not a good home for you at this point in my life. It has been […]
Rejection Letters 