by Damian Dressick
17 words
A Pushcart nominee and winner of the 2007 Harriette Arnow Award for short fiction, Damian Dressick's work has appeared or is slated to appear in more than twenty-five literary journals, including New Delta Review, Alimentum, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Vestal Review and Contrary Magazine. Founding curator of
Copyright © 2008 Damian Dressick
Bob Heman's work has appeared in Quick Fiction, Paragraph, Sentence, and many others. A collection of 33 pieces, How it All Began, is available as a free download from Quale Press at http://www.quale.com/How_BH.html
The tender turns the television to Univision, mostly for the telenovela women, and there they saw, on the news, this grainy clip of a group of Argentine kids freaking out over a gnome coming their way, pointy hat and drunken hobo shuffle and all. Nat watched from over his beer and spoke, to his reflection in the glass, to the tender, to no one, "Now, if you see a little fellow coming your way, all jolly on his bun, you don't scream. You buy that cat a drink and get his story." No one had anything to say.
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by Doug Mathewson
56 words
Family called us difficult children. School and the neighbors called us worse.
Late at night, I would squirt lighter fluid on our boots, my sister would strike the match, and we would run screaming through the house.
Doug Mathewson writes very short fiction that occasionally finds itself being essay or poetry. He is current project is "True Stories From Imaginary Lives." He has been published most recently by PenPricks Micro-fiction, Creative Soup,and Tuesday Shorts. His poetry will appear in the March issue of eMuse-zine.
More of his work is available at his own blog, www.little2say.org
Beth’s guilt was great, only mitigated by the implausible hope that a future scholar, studying the same pages, might mistake the origin of the accidental mark and conclude Stein bled ink.
Noel Sloboda lives in Pennsylvania, where he serves as dramaturg for the Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival and teaches at Penn State York. His writing has appeared in venues based in the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Canada. Look for recent work in Chronogram, Vulcan, Keyhole Magazine, bottle rockets, Gentle Strength Quarterly, Poems Niederngasse, and Pen Pusher. He is also busy with a collection forthcoming from sunnyoutside.
Copyright © 2008 Noel Sloboda
"What’s for dinner, Mom?
"Shake ’N Jake!"
"Awesome! Hey, Dad--Mom’s making Shake ’N Jake!"
"Shake ’N Jake? What’s that, honey?"
"Shake ’N Jake is a quick and easy meal that’s perfect for the whole family! Jake comes fully dismembered and disemboweled for convenient choosing of the body part you want! Simply shake the contents in the freeze-loc bag for tasty seasoning and place in the microwave! Who’s ready for Shake ’N Jake?"
"Me! I want an arm!"
"I’ll take a leg!"
"And I’ll have the lymph nodes!"
Shake ’N Jake: THE ULTIMATE WHITE MEAT!
Mike Reczek is a TEFL teacher currently working in Taiwan. He has been to Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, and Jakarta and, to his knowledge, and never willingly eaten Shake ’N Jake.
