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Post-Yuletide Blues

Post-Yuletide Blues

I didn’t know what to do the day after Christmas. So I stayed in my pajamas until 11 a.m.

Posted on January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction4 Minutes Read

Fiction: “Now Walt”

Fiction: “Now Walt”

It’s terrible, Walt thought, the way humans chew up the world wherever they go. Gnashing through the Earth like one big chomping mouth.

Posted on November 23, 2022 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction6 Minutes Read

Fiction: ‘In the Middle of All This’

Fiction: ‘In the Middle of All This’

A man named Rabbit who’s missing a pinky finger wakes up in his garage apartment in West Texas.

Posted on November 18, 2022November 18, 2022 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction32 Minutes Read

Fiction: ‘Familiar Burdens’

Fiction: ‘Familiar Burdens’

And all of a sudden my dead grandpa and I were walking side-by-side down a desert highway.

Posted on February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction5 Minutes Read

Coffee Shop

Coffee Shop

You take a couple sips of the hot, earthy liquid, and off goes your mind. Now you’re floating. Near the ceiling, mingling with the smoky coffee bean scent. You’re settling into your body again.

Posted on December 11, 2021December 11, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction5 Minutes Read

Fiction: ‘Kanye’s Secret’

Fiction: ‘Kanye’s Secret’

I met Kanye in a Buffalo coffee shop shortly after he started frequenting Wyoming.

Posted on October 17, 2021October 18, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction43 Minutes Read

Some Days it Really is Like This

Some Days it Really is Like This

Small things can still wonder. Gods don’t have that luxury. I don’t think it’d be all that fun to be a God.

Posted on September 5, 2021September 6, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction12 Minutes Read

Fiction: ‘Dispatch from the Great Castration’

Fiction: ‘Dispatch from the Great Castration’

So here I am, standing in front of another drab office building, waiting to die.

Posted on August 23, 2021September 6, 2021 by Andy MoonIn Essays & Fiction14 Minutes Read

Fiction: ‘Happy Death on the Beach’

Fiction: ‘Happy Death on the Beach’

So he went down to the bar and got drunk. He hadn’t done that in a couple years, since the last time he stopped drinking, but it was one of those things where he had to have a drink right away.

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction11 Minutes Read

Ghosts Without Faces

Ghosts Without Faces

Reflections on fatherhood and family history.

Posted on August 1, 2021August 1, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction13 Minutes Read

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