Smashed

Jerry Landry
The Reckless Muse
Published in
5 min readFeb 28, 2024

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

A collection of empty liquor bottles shown in black-and-white.
Photo by Orkhan Farmanli on Unsplash

They reached the fifth stop of the bar crawl when Ben Henke’s bladder would no longer oblige. He checked-in with the bouncer then briskly worked his way to the bathroom.

The bar was nice but the restroom was a dungeon. Ben could smell the black mold as he slid into an open urinal. The stream’s relief was so satisfying he rested his forearm against the moldy…

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