Tag: Humor
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Chow Down Saturdays at the Pig Slop
Forthcoming in Beloit Fiction Journal It is Florida 1985 and no one will fuck me. And no one has fucked me in five years and first dates never return my calls. This weighs on me heavily, and I can’t find a solution that doesn’t involve flagrant self-improvement. I look about for alternatives to satisfy my…
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Billy Beergut Drinks a Beer
Unpublished short fiction Billy Beergut threw another beer at the television. He drank some more beer, then threw that beer at the television, too. The cans bounced off and fell on the carpet. There were a lot of old cans on the carpet. The whole apartment smelled like beer. Billy Beergut had a beer gut and…
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The Stupid Invasion
Published in The Florida Review 46.2 — Winter 2022 Aliens invaded Earth, and they were so fucking rich. It wasn’t exactly an invasion, either. They just kind of showed up and started spending money. Their spaceships weren’t all that special. They actually seemed a lot like ours—they had rockets and thrusters and things. No one…
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The Broken Path
Published in subTerrain Grandpa died face-down in a pot of chili. It’s a family legend. They told that story every Thanksgiving and all the children loved it. I was four when Grandpa Jim passed away but what I remember from that day is seeing my own father sobbing into a couch cushion, not knowing why…
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How the Ocean Hated Tampa Tom
Everyone hated Tampa Tom. His friends hated him and his enemies hated him.