Stories tagged speculative

The Neighborly Thing To Do

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I was drunk in the bathtub, struggling to recall how many little pills I had choked down. "There's the goddamn warning they should mention in those pharmaceutical ads on TV: 'Could be difficult to count when trying to end it all. Ask your doctor if you're healthy enough…

They Laugh When You Cry

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The sudden sound of old night tires crunching sand, closer, louder, made her jump. The car’s engine bumped and banged like a wild caged bird, then sputtered out just beyond the kitchen window.

They Laugh When You Cry - II

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Tattoos of viper skulls shone on the men’s faces. Viper neck bones glistened on their cheeks, viper tongues flicked blood in the shape of tears and crying eyes, in the shape of crosses.

Our Year of Reaping

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At the alternative school one year they had us working in a garden.

Inversion

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If I could see the universe/ from outside the universe// would it look like a snowflake

Harlequin

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One majestic crow swoops down to perch upon a crumbling spire. His menacing gaze fixes upon the blind harlequin, the jerky motions of its wiry hands; the pneumatic, spinning mechanism lodged in its skeletal chest.

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb #2

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Three small boys on second hand bicycles fill the air with war cries, their steeds branded and traceable.

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb #3

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to the waters and the wild where the merganser ducks waddle by the pond’s edge, colorful plumage the feathers ruffled by the blast of icy air from the Arctic walruses in limbo, their fatty cells keeping them nourished for the winter.

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb #4

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A skinny dog limps across the ashy field, guzzles mouthfuls of garbage, a bloodied welt on the inside of its leg.

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb #5

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On a dark evening in March there’s a 50/50 chance of an immediate absorption of fission into the bloodstream of certain birds.

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb #6

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With reverence - prayers falling on twisted wires, exposed to show the twisted, spiraled core to the inquisitive eye.