eBay Listing for Vintage 1991 Lot of 5 Taco Bell “Rock Art for Charity” Collectible Cups

John Waddy BullionMarch 5, 2023

Who could say no to these pieces of Nineties pop culture history? Set of 5 32oz cups contains original designs of George Michael, MC Hammer, Diana Ross, Scorpio...

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Everything’s OK. Everything’s Just Fine.

L Mari HarrisMarch 2, 2023

She can hear that rock station he always listens to, drifting down the hallway.   He’s at that age now, those small moments of pushing away, of dista...

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Early 2000s Middle School Dance

Miranda SteinwayFebruary 28, 2023

I’ve finally arrived at my first school dance and all I can think about is that Dylan is here. I spotted him ahead of me in line while I was waiting for tickets...

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The Superhero’s Guide to Getting Sober

Pat JamesonFebruary 27, 2023

Drunk Man was in for a long night. First, there was that robbery, down on 25th street. A gang of hoodlums holed up in Pet Mart, brandishing machetes at the gerb...

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All Fucked Up on Shell Bras

Kirsti MacKenzieFebruary 22, 2023

Don’t wear fuck-me pumps to brunch, you said. Too late. No time to go home before coming here, this fancy place on the waterfront. Skaters on a rink by the rest...

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Milton And Eleanor

Brittany DeitchFebruary 20, 2023

At home, my neighbor's spouse is slowly dying. Eleanor and Milton, Milton is the dying one. Though I suppose that one of them is not really dying much more than...

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THERE IS NO DEATH IN FINDING NEMO

Jeffrey M. FeingoldFebruary 16, 2023

Phil opened his eyes to see glass just inches from his face. He looked left, then right. He rotated his eyeballs three hundred-sixty degrees. He saw glass in al...

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Maria Santana Demonio

David M. RubinFebruary 14, 2023

“The giants of old San Juan grabbed the boys by the ankles and swung them to smash open the piñatas. With the boys out of the way, the girls calmly gathered the...

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Goats

H.M. RyanFebruary 9, 2023

Fans scream and dance as the pop-punk/emo-punk/emo-pop band, Pluto’s No More, plays up on stage in front of them. Consisting of five members, theirs is a group ...

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Cotton candy from the sky

Swetha AmitFebruary 6, 2023

When I was little, I'd point at the sky and ask Mama if I could have that cotton candy fluff. Sometimes white, sometimes pink, and occasionally orange, they'd c...

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Drunk People Aren’t Deaf and Temperates are Blind

Ann McCordFebruary 5, 2023

On late night after a track meet, and coincidentally a Royals game, my friends and I went on a run to IHOP—the only restaurant still open at 11:30 PM. As we sta...

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Space Oddity

Coty PoynterFebruary 2, 2023

The bugs in Castor’s head writhed beneath his skull. He threw his burner at the rock-covered ground and screamed, his strained voice reverberating across the la...

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It’s Not a Disney Movie

Chelsea DoddsFebruary 1, 2023

“When I got back to my car I was like, wait… if I didn’t have a boyfriend, were we about to kiss?” Carissa hadn’t planned on telling any of her friends back ...

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4 Bds, 2.5 Ba Craftsman, 2350 Sq Ft

Anthony Neil SmithJanuary 30, 2023

Thank you for sending along the house inspection report. I’m sorry it’s taken so long for me to respond. My ex-wife and I had to discuss it, which took more ene...

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Beer for Breakfast

Phoenix DeSimoneJanuary 25, 2023

One hungover morning wasn’t that different from any other hungover morning. At least that’s what Leslie like to tell herself. She struggled out of bed as her al...

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The Triumph of Fear

Steve GergleyJanuary 20, 2023

For nearly every night of the past year, Simon Page has stumbled, half-blind and terrified, through the morphing liquid maze of horrors that are his chronic nig...

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Things Marlene Knew

Kacey LeeJanuary 16, 2023

Marlene didn’t know a lot of things, but she knew enough. She knew an average number of things to an average degree of knowledgeability. If you fall asleep befo...

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Newark Academy’s Homelessness Night

A.A. WeissJanuary 15, 2023

Something was wrong with Mr. Fleeter.  He was usually so approachable, happy to talk with anyone. Unlike other teachers who struggled to connect with student...

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Mostly Ziplocs

Robert Nazar ArjoyanJanuary 13, 2023

“Don’t move, OK?” “OK.” Agh. Couldn’t she just put it on the stupid countertop? Spices do smell good, though. I need to shower, clean Harley’s ear, ...

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Remedy for a Closed Mind

Liz LanierJanuary 10, 2023

Your third-highest-grossing film got shit reviews. You shouldn’t be surprised, really: It’s just another day of doing exactly what it was you said you wanted...

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Don’t Be Evil.

Matt RowanJanuary 7, 2023

Your grandmother had written it down on a blue note card she must have kept in her old mahogany secretary desk. You remember the desk because of the way its wri...

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Graverobbers

Rob BenvieJanuary 4, 2023

No, she said, it has to be deeper. If I go much deeper, he said, we’ll hit a water main or something. So you hit one, she said, and then we course-correct. But ...

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K-Y Duration Spray for Men

Thomas HobohmJanuary 3, 2023

You say that you love New York, and fine, I won’t disabuse you of that notion, all I’ll say is that while you were flying business class into JFK and staying in...

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Memoirs of a Dissociative Youth

Dan MoreyJanuary 2, 2023

Every week in group therapy we are encouraged to share what is generally referred to as life experience. The idea is to diffuse individual psychoneurotic suffer...

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Wikipedia

Claire FennellJanuary 1, 2023

The Wikipedia page for Hopscotch will tell you that the game was invented in prehistoric India, dating some time between 600 and 500 BCE. Time counted down, bac...

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The way you wear the corpses in your hair

Caleb BetheaDecember 30, 2022

Hammocked in your curls. Little dead humans, embalmed with nothing but shampoo, linseed oil conditioner. Even their teeth are cleaned with scalp-curing properti...

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The Museum of Lost Objects

James R. GapinskiDecember 29, 2022

Your lost keys glisten on a plinth near the entrance. You remember the 1992 Dodge Neon that these belonged to, and how the entire car felt hollow and plastic an...

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Where We Buy Our Happiness

Leslie WilberDecember 29, 2022

When Meg first walks into a thrift store, a question automatically pricks the back of her mind. How is she gonna drink out of something that comes from a place ...

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Stanley Kubrick Directs Me Through My Cancer Diagnosis

SR SchulzDecember 28, 2022

“I’ve got bad news,” I say. “It’s not good.”   “Cut!” Stanley shouts.    The lights change. People exhale. Murmurs fill the silence.  &...

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On the Day the Alchemist Discovers Alkahest

Avra MargaritiDecember 26, 2022

Her face will be all over the news: concealer hastily dabbed around black-hole eyes, caffeine patch glue curling leg- and arm-hairs like pill bugs, fingerprints...

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