Archive for January, 2011

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

“How to Ruin a Good Funeral” by David James

David James HOW TO RUIN A GOOD FUNERAL Show up shit-faced wearing your softball uniform and sit in the front row with the family. Pass out bags of peanuts. Drop the shells at your feet, cracking them open throughout the eulogy. Offer to say a few remarks. Once at the podium, rattle off dead-baby jokes. [...]

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Saturday, January 1st, 2011

“Lament for the Maker” by Alvin Malpaya

Alvin Malpaya LAMENT FOR THE MAKER I don’t think of good wills and possible worlds like I used to, but arm twisted unnaturally or gun to my head, I might give it another shot, and like it. I can hallucinate with the worst of them, conjure a team of demons whose dirty little fingers are [...]

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