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Love and Gambling
[negative suck | february 2011]
He told me to shut up and deal, so I did, partly because it made me feel like a big man to be talked at that way and partly because what else could I do? I dealt all the cards while he was in the bathroom and when I ran out I opened another deck and dealt those, too.
Continue reading at Negative Suck. . .
Love and Prostitutes
[weirdyear | 21 january 2011]
The main problem Uncle Mathis had was with the whores. He couldn’t resist them.
Continue reading at WEIRDYEAR. . .
Love and Ice Cream
[weirdyear | 15 january 2011]
The Sunday sundae escalated quickly after we came up with the catchy name, both in terms of frequency and in number of scoops.
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Two Men
[full of crow | january 2011]
“All I usually do,” Greg said, “is invite over any friends or family, anyone in the area, and just make a time of it. Keep it simple.”
“Aye. A fine ritual.”
“A person is lost without rituals.”
“Certainly lost,” Peter said.
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Love and Computers
[dogzplot | december 2010]
She’s shooting Paul Auster quotes at me like I give a fuck. It’s 5 AM and we haven’t slept since yesterday’s 5 AM.
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Pillow Talk
[the short humour site | 17 september 2010]
“I’m going out tonight. I thought you would want to go out tonight. We haven’t been out for a while.”
“But you promised.”
“Are you coming or not?”
“All day I’ve thought about pillows. Foam rubber pillows, down-filled pillows, feather pillows, throw pillows, body pillows, boppy pillows.
Continue reading at The Short Humour Site. . .
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The Alley
[thrillers killers n chillers | 12 september 2010]
After midnight and I’m in the Mexican fast food drive-thru ordering coffee, black, with a packet of salt. The drive-thru because years ago all the 24-hour diners shut down for the night, the salt to take the bitterness out of the day-old brew they’re serving reheated. What bitterness the salt can’t take out, the whiskey kills.
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Story of a Generation
[calliope nerve | september 2010] [poeticdiversity | december 2009]
All history is the story of rebellion, for without rebellion there are no stories to tell. Without rebellion there is only tradition, the stories told without telling. Without rebellion there is no generation, just as every generation has its rebellion.
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Joe’s Perfect Machine
[bartleby snopes | august 2010]
i. Cigarette tucked in the corner of his thin pink lips, a man sat on the floor of his ill-lit kitchen nursing two fingers of five dollar bourbon, sketching out his plan for the perfect machine. He was drawing straight lines mostly, curves for wings, a panel of microprocessors, a hydraulic lift, a block of knives, a series of syringes.
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UPDATE: “Joe’s Perfect Machine” is included in Issue 5 of Bartleby Snopes Magazine, edited by Nathaniel Tower. Available now for free as a .pdf or through scribd and issuu. Buy an in-print copy from Lulu.
