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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: ‘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

Movement is for the Living

Movement is for the Living

I could wake up tomorrow, walk into my front yard and be attacked by a rabid bobcat.

Posted on June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction11 Minutes Read

Fiction Pick: ‘Stuck in Arizona with the Low Hope Blues Again’

Fiction Pick: ‘Stuck in Arizona with the Low Hope Blues Again’

The dream is always the same. I’m stuck in Mesa and it’s the last place I want to be.

Posted on March 7, 2021July 21, 2021 by Andy MoonIn Essays & Fiction16 Minutes Read

Fiction Pick: ‘Cincinnati Does Not Exist’

Fiction Pick: ‘Cincinnati Does Not Exist’

Jo never thought of himself as a river guy, per se, yet one morning he awoke in a canoe, floating down a body of water that clearly was a river.

Posted on December 26, 2020January 7, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction20 Minutes Read

Bramble in My Pasture

Bramble in My Pasture

With chainsaw, rake and machete, I set out to butcher the bramble.

Posted on December 1, 2020January 7, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction8 Minutes Read

Fiction Pick: ‘Everything is happening at once’

Fiction Pick: ‘Everything is happening at once’

America, the vast and simultaneous.

Posted on September 23, 2020September 24, 2020 by Andy MoonIn Essays & Fiction13 Minutes Read

Fiction Pick: ‘Flower, beast or Hitler’

Fiction Pick: ‘Flower, beast or Hitler’

At that point in my life, there was a lot of — how should I put this — fumbling around in the dark.

Posted on August 16, 2020August 16, 2020 by Andy MoonIn Essays & Fiction12 Minutes Read

Fiction Pick: ‘A Few Examples of Apathy and Randomness in Our Universe’

Fiction Pick: ‘A Few Examples of Apathy and Randomness in Our Universe’

Strive to become the pirate.

Posted on July 1, 2020July 3, 2020 by Andy MoonIn Essays & Fiction10 Minutes Read

The Here and Now Isn’t the Only Thing That Will Ever Be

The Here and Now Isn’t the Only Thing That Will Ever Be

A reflection on the incomprehensible.

Posted on May 19, 2020May 28, 2020 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction8 Minutes Read

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