I don’t know nuthin’ about guns these days, so forgive me if I get some shit wrong here. Or fuck it, don’t forgive me. Like I give a fuck. Just listen. You might learn somethin’. I’m pointing this particular gun at the motherfucker who walked in here and tried to walk out with his pockets […]
It’s hard to believe that 5 months ago I announced that we would be be producing our first print/ebook anthology. It seems so long ago to be such a short period of time, but there it is, only 5 month. In that time, our quartet has read through nearly a 100 stories of all aspects […]
“Johnny,” she said, stopping him dead with a tug on his hand. “What’s the matter?” He smiled, soft and sweet like the day they’d first met, like the time they’d first kissed, like the time they’d first woken together. In those days, she remembered, the smile had touched his ocean blue eyes. “Come on,” she […]
Superman had Batman bent over while Spider-Man watched. “Damn it Billy, stop fucking around and help me look,” Ray said. Billy looked up from positioning the toys on the desk and flipped him off. “You aint the boss of me.” Ray walked over to Billy and slapped the action figures out of his hands. “Like […]
“Lew?” You tie your sweaty hair in a ponytail. “Can’t we put on the a/c?” “No!” he says. “Wait for the crowd.” Crowd, my ass, you think. The ceiling fans do shit. With both doors open, Scratch’s has scared its drunks away. You picture Snake cracking cold ones in his kids’ pool, skanky Nina sucking […]
I walked into the luncheonette, parked myself on one of the cracked faux leather red stools, dropped the newspaper on the counter and pretended to read. “Welcome. What’ll it be?” The guy behind the counter was pushing 60. Stained teeth contrasted with his bright white t-shirt and oversized chef’s hat. I didn’t make eye contact. […]
Kimmie C loved what she did. A glance at me rolling up in the cruiser and she’d strike a pose straight out of Scarface: Deep Pacino scowl sinking the beauty mark on her cheek. Chest shoved out behind crossed arms. Standing tall on her corner, towering over the gym-heads and ex-linebackers in her crew, Kimmie […]
“I have a gun, I can show it if you want, but you can take me at my word and put the good money in the envelope.” Janine heard the word, but stood still, just staring out at the man’s beard. The beard was fake. She had been in the high school plays before graduation […]
I was coming back from a midnight piss and the three of them lay sprawled out in the dim light of the campfire, snoring like a pen full of hogs. I thought to myself what a godforsaken mess is this? It was humiliating, truthfully. We weren’t hardly men, properly called. Me and these three men […]
Luke comes roaring down the dark lane like Dale Earnrhardt Jr. after a quick pit at Daytona. He bangs through and over an old cow gate without even thinking about the brakes. Sneaking a look in the rear view mirror he sees nothing but swirling dust. The high weeds are lit up by the bouncing […]
Brega had only just slipped his pecker inside the beaming Mrs. Jake Tatum when the downstairs door was kicked in by Mr. Jake Tatum, the master of the house. Mrs. Tatum stopped beaming and threw him out of her, off the bed, to the floor, mid-thrust. “Under the bed!” Her voice was a shrill whisper, […]
A Wonderful Country A Darius Cunningham and Ezekiel Fisher story from the world of PENANCE U.S. Marine Scout/Sniper Barracks, Camp Pendleton California, 1979 The new guy dumped his duffel on his bunk, looked around the room. “So, which one of you assholes used to be the best shot here?” he said. Cocky. The new guys […]
