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” at The Short Humour Site
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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.
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"The Alley" at Thrillers, Killers n’ Chillers
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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” at Calliope Nerve and poeticdiversity
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" at Bartleby Snopes
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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.
"Love Without Tax, or: How I Met My Wife" at Long Story Short
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Love Without Tax, or: How I Met My Wife [long story short | august 2010]
She said she was into philately, which I thought was odd to just toss out in casual conversation but I got pretty excited and asked something like, “How exactly do you people get into that sort of thing?” and she said “I don’t want to talk about it unless you’re really interested because people always make fun of me,” and I said, “How cruel people can be!”
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"The Freeing of the Wardens" at Camroc Press Review
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The Freeing of the Wardens
[camroc press review | 28 July 2010]
Once they realized they had never known each other, the Wardens divorced. But first they had to meet, and then they had to court, and then they had to wed. After the wedding, the marriage started.
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"A Metamorphosis" at Black Lantern
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A Metamorphosis
[black lantern | summer 2010]
Gregory Samson awoke one morning to find himself firmly rooted in reality. He scratched his soft, fleshy belly, yawned, rolled over and stretched his legs, pushing his feet — first one, then the other, two in total — away from his torso, and wondered if perhaps one morning his legs would just plumb pop off while carelessly doing things like this.
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"Love and Adirondacking" at WEIRDYEAR
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Love and Adirondacking
[weirdyear | 30 may 2010]
Yesterday when the sun came up I went across the street to the neighbors’ patio and lounged in one of their green plastic Adirondack chairs, which I admit now was a bit unusual of me, seeing how as I had never actually spoken to these particular neighbors…
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"The Author Works on Writing a Story about Robots" at Metazen
The Author Works on Writing a Story about Robots
[metazen | 20 april 2010]
i. The author sits down to write a story about robots. He gets the idea after a woman walks by who sounds like a staticy radio. There was no obvious place for the woman to hide a radio, so the author thinks that maybe the woman is actually a robot. The author thinks that robots are badass. The author sits down to write a story about robots.
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