Moundsman Eric Berger has a mustache. Let us crush the uprising. Let us check our chained pocket watch before signing the railroad deed. Let us agree not to speak of the colonel’s history of ravishment. Let our wives die in … Continue reading Moundsman Eric Berger has a mustache
Let us throw up at a ballgame, you and me. Collars high, gents! Wangs paraded, cavaliers! Our testicles are covered by moss and lichen. This is because they are boulders. So let us throw up at a ballgame, you and … Continue reading Let us throw up at a ballgame
BUSYTOWN, U.S.A. — When Mayor Fox of Busytown was merely Young Fox, he frequented the old-line immigrant swim clubs in the Busy Hill section of the since-industrialized Northeast Side. The story, still told in taverns with the whiff of the … Continue reading How Busytown stole the Tampa Bay Rays: A glossy magazine story that has never and will never appear in a glossy magazine
Adrián Beltré jammed the gear stick into park and sat in his truck until the song finished. Once it was over he sat another moment. The street lights weren’t yet flickering on, but they would soon. He grabbed his thermos … Continue reading Minimalist short fiction starring Adrián Beltré
1. In love poems we talk about eye color. Your eyes are the color of The virginity that Brooke Shields just lost And the luxury Oldsmobile she’ll Give birth to nine months hence. In benedictions we ask the firmament For … Continue reading To a photograph in which Dave Parker is baseball in the 1970s made flesh
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