Stories

Where to Get the Sugar – Forrest Muelrath

1/17/2023

The way most of us read is about to change in fundamental and irreversible ways. If I began enumerating some of the programs presently entering the market that will be fundamentally changing the way we read, I would soon be lost in a cloud of technical writing, and then the ways that I am both reading and writing, as I am writing now, would quickly start to change.

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Stories

The Breaks – Teddy Burnette

What he’s trying to say is that a potted plant hanging from the ceiling of their apartment fell last night while he was sleeping. He had bolted upright, stumbled a bit, and walked over to the broken ceramic pieces and strewn about dirt, taking it in before he swept it up with the help of his girlfriend who’d been in the bathroom at the time of the incident. He’d gone back to sleep,

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Stories

On the Verge of Hypertension – Alex Antiuk

        Dr. Ruben didn’t listen to a single thing Wendy said, before he took his big, hairy fingers and began to scribble notes on her chart. He was using a pencil, which Wendy found odd.
        “We’re going to have to just keep an eye on it… But let’s take a reading before you leave to make sure…” Dr. Ruben smiled while his diagnosis deafened Wendy. She had to place her long fingernails deep within her ear lobes.

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Art

The Young People Are Coming To Get You – Blake Nelson

do I even need to write another
poem?

I guess I do, nothing too serious
just short bursts

of loose fingered typing,
even as I wake up each morning

with that tightness in my chest
dread of the future

the thought (when I look out the window)
THE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE COMING TO GET YOU!

but they do not come,

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