BY CHRISTIE K. TORCHIA Are we good, Jen? “Fuck it, Christie. Sometimes you receive karma, sometimes you deliver it” – Tara Hegg I wronged her in a past life, maybe in multiple past lives. I fucked over Jen, and got what I deserved, right? How the fuck do I end this shitty cycle? ——— By […]
Ralph Steadman's Viral Menace in the New Age
The following are original stories by guest authors who submitted their stories to accompany Ralph Steadman's Viral Menace artwork. I am publishing them in the order they were received. Thank you! Anita Thompson
TOO HOT FOR HOCKEY
A PANIC ATTACK PANDEMIC STORY BY DERRICK CANTWELL The back balcony garbage was surrounded by flies. The sun was scorching down on the trash, creating some form of sick summertime stew. I pushed my foot on one of the bags and a rancid-looking yellowish-brown liquid leaked out onto the balcony. I had missed the last […]
DESTINATION MILE MARKER AND THE GREAT SONORAN DESERT
A SHORT STORY BASED ON THE TRUTH BY ELIZABETH AGUIRRE .. Hello, my name is Elizabeth Marie Aguirre. 37 and living in Fresno, California. I’m going to school to become a history teacher to make sure I can keep todays youth excited to learn our past and how we all got here. Now this story […]
FOOL’S DAY
BY CURTIS HAYES Note to the editor: The bold font seen below in the text ‘Fool’s Day’ and the ‘F-Minus’ next to each entry, is to help the reader understand that the first entry seen is actually the last chronologically, and something that we’re building to. I feel that this is essential to the understanding […]
The True Monster Lurking
BY SEAN WINKLEMAN The boys are whooping it up again in back field behind the Rancho again. I can hear muffled wild voices in the cool dusk air, split by rapid high powered rifle fire. They had won back their land from the Meth freaks about a year ago in some kind of savage Backwoods […]