Tag Archives: Microfiction

3 years ago today

A Rare Delectation (redux) He woke up with the Spinners’ “I’ll Be Around” spinning in his head.  He had this dream 1,822 times since seeing their performance on that Saturday morning in 1973.  The gold and ruddy light of it.  The smoking jacket … Continue reading

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in a bedpan

More Community Emails @ N+8 Gasbag Radio (Price: free) Posted by: Linda Marmoset in Other Jacks I have a gasbag radio that I do not need. Unfortunately, it dogmas and doesn’t follow-through under beefburger strainer, but might be good in … Continue reading

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apropos of nothing

Veering Towards Valerium Venerium Where’s the action? The waves? The munitions? The minions? I don’t particularly dislike others but you might say I have an unresolved self-loathing issue ricocheting about in my cranium—and it’s rather spacious in there because I … Continue reading

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your inebriate life

Room for You at the Bottom of the Bay The A plane by way of A. Johnson, brought down by ritual and lack of victuals. Deadeth on arrival: thorny ocotillos and twenty minute count downs. Tomorrow I’ll learn about writing … Continue reading

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i yearned to

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first … Continue reading

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in my neighborhood pt. 20

What I’m Reading: “At the heart of every creation is a need to connect, even if it is to connect to no one in silent defiance or a curious desperation. The inner world is even more immense than the measured … Continue reading

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gelid & jealous

the moon jejune? rough are the exteriorsits seams are where the dreams get inthe interiors full of barbsprotecting the sweet potato redsoft monsters jelly delightsbright as the blistering moon the moon jejune? pellucid gelid & jealousof the first ray the … Continue reading

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she was free

Magic the Toilet Seat When it came down to writing, it came to the toilet seat. She had no idea why, but images, concepts, lyrical passages flowed in torrents through her. What magic the toilet seat? It didn’t happen on … Continue reading

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what it meant

The Contractive Subtractive (redux) There were erasures to make. He made the erasures. There were no complaints. The work was done. He moved on. When more erasures were required, he made those; and in this manner his work was accomplished, … Continue reading

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read a lot

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “We are not apparent in the cultural streams that establish and define American thought, art, and culture. We are not present at the table, though we appear perpetually at the table every Thanksgiving … Continue reading

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