Alan Good
Snake Stories
Reading Time: 4 minutes Someone, I think it was once of my uncles, once told me they had caught a black snake and thrown it in the washing machine and it was so strong it kept pushing the lid open no matter how hard they tried to keep it shut. Pretty sure it was when my mom and I Read more
MoreIn the Penile Colony
Reading Time: 14 minutes Originally published in Word Riot (August 2015) If we had lived in a godless, socialist country like Finland we would have been fine, but here in the land of Family Values our marriage could not survive paying for preschool. We were not like the Patagonias, who toured the school with us in their matching down Read more
MoreJackwagon
Reading Time: 10 minutes This is an excerpt from an in-progress, yet sort of stalled, novel that doesn’t really have a good title yet. I smelled like a coprophiliac, except a coprophiliac would have made more efforts at hygiene than I’d done. I had a week’s worth of grime and sweat on me, hadn’t tried to bathe except to Read more
MoreSex Slang for People in Long-Term Relationships
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’re like me you don’t know what any of the shit on the internet means. I did some research and it turns out all the popular sexting words and newfangled sex slang mean different things to people in long-term relationships than they do to, like, people in Tindr and whatnot. Hope this helps. 6UAL Read more
MoreFireworks at Midnight
Reading Time: 5 minutes Mark was always a deep sleeper, slept through many tornado sirens as a kid in Kansas, but as soon as he became a parent he would awaken at the slightest sound, a useful skill when you’re living in an imploding civilization. The question now was what could his kids sleep through. The man in front Read more
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