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Poetrytime travel with karsten
“fuck off,” the old man said as he heaved a black trash bag into the dumpster behind the Safeway. karsten blinked. “well damn. i…
Fiction, HumorYour call is important to us
They brought me in on a six-week contract to “optimize client contact channels”—which, in plain English, meant building a phone system so soul-destroying that…
QuotationsTechnology and Time
"You know what drives me crazy? It's all these people talking about how great technology is, and how it saves all this time. But…
FictionThe Golden Years of Gary Goldenberg
At Gary Goldenberg’s retirement party, someone brought a chocolate sheet cake that said “Congratulations!” in blue frosting, the kind that stained teeth and clothes…
PoetryCoins in the Canal
In Manila, I watched them toss coins into a canal slick with waste— sailors and Marines laughing, like children on leave from war. The…
FictionThe Last Few Miles
They told him in March. A manila envelope full of scan results, a half-hearted handshake from the doctor, a lot of words like “advanced”…
Fiction, HumorDELETE MY PICTURES
“I want you to delete all the pictures of me,” she said. I was sitting in the tub with my feet sticking out like…
Fiction, HumorBig Semicolon Sale!
Here at Punctuation World we have a large overstock of semicolons. This is due to the continuing worldwide decline in their popularity and use, particularly in…
Poetry, Poetrygood guys
“you ever wonder,” i said, “why we get to have nukes but if anyone else even looks interested, we call it a threat?” karsten…
Humor, Poetrybillionaires gone bitchmode: the final tweetdown
one says "without me, you'd have lost." the other says "epstein files, bro." and just like that two assholes who once held hands under…
Poetrylessons from my dead father
i was on the couch, alone, halfway through a bag of pretzels and a questionable bowl of indica when he showed up, just sat…
