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Ransoming Nancy

When a man’s mother-in-law is kidnapped, he negotiates the ransom with her captors, but struggles to settle on an amount of money worth…

May 29, 2024

Long-exposure of car headlights over hours of traffic across a wintry nighttime highway.

May 29, 2024

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Maneater

A stunning female cannibal known as the “Maneater” risks losing her immortality as she struggles to find virile men to consume thanks to…

May 17, 2024

May 17, 2024

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Time Falcons

When tensions between rivaling fundamentalists boil over, a Great War ensues over the interpretation of time.

May 8, 2024

A large clock face in night, gold numbers and hands, black clock face.

May 8, 2024

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Ronnie Python vs. The WCW

When a disgruntled professional wrestler goes off script, all hell breaks loose, fomenting the bitter end of the WCW.

Apr 26, 2024

Black and white photo of a wrestler grabbing his throat on the ring floor, the ref nearby and counting him out.

Apr 26, 2024

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Deli Fight

When a brotherly fight goes too far, one brother must forgive the other and perform an emergency tracheotomy with a greasy pen tube.

Apr 19, 2024

Two pastrami sandwiches stacked high on a deli counter.

Apr 19, 2024

The Chosen Bowler

Nick Colton wasn’t bowling’s biggest fan. For years he was no fan at all. Aside from intermittent childhood birthday parties, Nick never…

Mar 7, 2024

Orange bowling ball moving down an alley toward a ten pin setup.

Mar 7, 2024

Goodbye Old Friend

An Open Letter to Khaki Shorts:

Mar 4, 2024

Goodbye Old Friend

Mar 4, 2024

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Smashed

A cursed man must keep his BAC above 0.08, otherwise he dies.

Feb 28, 2024

A collection of empty liquor bottles shown in black-and-white.

Feb 28, 2024

Fundamentals of Strength

A biopsy on modern living

Feb 27, 2024

Fundamentals of Strength

Feb 27, 2024

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Drug Bunnies

At the lab, a second severely mutated rabbit leapt through the silhouette of broken glass. Followed by a third, and then a fourth.

Feb 22, 2024

Drug Bunnies

Feb 22, 2024

Midwinter

Tarik Madsen’s studio apartment was a depressing oeuvre of decaying pizza boxes and dry vape carts.

Feb 14, 2024

A snow-spackled window shows a blurry display of snow carpeting the ground and a large brown building in the far background.

Feb 14, 2024

Uprising Day: IV

Some say the United States of America is the strongest country on earth due to its geopolitical advantage. A combination of two vast oceans…

Feb 10, 2024

An isolated life guard tower situated on a sandy beach facing the Pacific Ocean.

Feb 10, 2024

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Uprising Day: III

Merrit’s desires were instinctual, feral needs. Feral needs to destroy his parents’ humanity and conscript them into Genghis Khan’s army of…

Feb 9, 2024

A haunting two-story farmhouse in a desolate wood. The front door is open, light on in an otherwise dark farmhouse.

Feb 9, 2024

Assured Victory

The jaws of defeat are merciless, ruthless and snide.

Feb 6, 2024

Bands of pink clouds stretching the horizon of a sunset.

Feb 6, 2024

Otter Boy

When I first met Otter Boy, I was a boy myself. Eleven-and-a-half and the knees of my jeans were grass-stained. We were riding bikes by the…

Feb 4, 2024

Close-up of river otter resting on the riverbank, beady eyes and spongy black nose.

Feb 4, 2024

Jeffers

Jeffers C. Burkhard was born with a butler’s name. Although he had never performed a single act of butlery.

Jan 31, 2024

Blue tractor trailer hauling a load down a two-lane highway, storms behind and sun ahead.

Jan 31, 2024

Best of 2023

My top ten stories from MMXXIII

Dec 30, 2023

Best of 2023

Dec 30, 2023

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Spiked

Although our family gatherings are typically obnoxious drunken affairs, what went down today was different.

Dec 12, 2023

Spiked

Dec 12, 2023

The Drop

Photo by Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash

Dec 8, 2023

Major city skyline at night, orange and white lights emanating from darkness and silhouetting skyscrapers

Dec 8, 2023

Johnny Forklift

Society branded him as blue collar, but Johnny had no idea what his collar had to do with it.

Dec 2, 2023

Forklift operator seen from behind operating an orange forklift.

Dec 2, 2023

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