When I was young my grandfather took me and my cousin on a trip. My father called it a vacation even though we were going to a ranch...
We got bombed out, and no one slept in New Orleans. There were options, some thirty-something couple with baking-soda aspirations and liquid expressions. They got us high, but...
The bouncer who stood blocking the door was a few inches taller and outweighed me by a hundred pounds. I had him sized up pretty good, gotten...
Below is part 4 of the original series 'Missed Connections' by Sean Kilpatrick. Check out the previous 3 here.
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Below is an excerpt from Mark de Silva's first novel Square Wave. It's one of our favorite titles of 2016. Go and buy it here or suffer...
You were ironically small because what an uncle had done to you held quotation marks around your entire adulthood and I was offering to hit him with a brick....
You were the smallest skeleton beneath the shapeliest curves, psychic beauty exploded across a presence, a truly sweet person trapped by the pornography of your figure to disappear as...
They’re in the walls. Bugs or rats or. Bats. At night they come most alive and torment with bites or bits or pitter-patter of feet or claws or. Iron....
You were the petite, curvy girl with the studiously erratic crimson dye job, sporting a dress no artist could sketch on hurriedly enough, and I was standing next to...
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We drove in silence through town, the parakeet perched on the arm of her heart-shaped sunglasses. She was crying, but maybe didn’t want...
Chico Xavier had a special son. His name was Emmanuel. He was no ordinary son born of a woman, but existed as a manifestation of his father’s highest vocation. It...
Below is an excerpt from the upcoming novel PUNCHIES PIZZA by Justin Andrew Johnson. Audio provided by Patrick Stephenson. Hello, my name is Jim, and I’m 31...
TALKING BOOK's new release in BAD SEX by the incomparable Clancy Martin. "I drink, I hurt myself and the people around me, and then I write." Brett is in Central...
I’m sure he decided, Ganesh descended and proclaimed it to be, on page 132 of Sky Mall. It was stumbling through the tchotchkes and deviously devised gadgets that...
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The following is the first of many kickass excerpts from Brian Alan Ellis's new book A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar NOW IN HI-FI! [audio...
