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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

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

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

Fiction: ‘Forever in Youth’

Fiction: ‘Forever in Youth’

We spent a lot of our free time throwing rocks at cars. That’s just sort of what you did growing up in the sticks with not a lot of stuff to keep you entertained.

Posted on July 3, 2021August 10, 2021 by Andy MoonIn Essays & Fiction10 Minutes Read

Fiction Pick: ‘Yellow-Bellied Birds’

Fiction Pick: ‘Yellow-Bellied Birds’

Ask anyone about Bill and the first thing they’ll mention is his white t-shirt. It’s the only shirt he ever wore.

Posted on May 16, 2021May 17, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction7 Minutes Read

Fiction Pick: ‘Bad Things in the Fog’

Fiction Pick: ‘Bad Things in the Fog’

I snapped myself out of the daydream, yet again befuddled as to why I was considering Hemingway.

Posted on May 1, 2021May 1, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction17 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

Fiction Pick: ‘The Old Caver’

Fiction Pick: ‘The Old Caver’

Arturo was nearly an old caver and dreaded becoming like the men who would drink rum and share their own legends throughout the night.

Posted on October 19, 2020October 20, 2020 by Kyle PerrottiIn Essays & Fiction12 Minutes Read

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