Category: blog
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Spicy
“It’s called Brutal Death By 16 Million Pepper Daggers and it’s our least popular item.” “I’ve had Jack-o-Lantern Apocalypse, Red Pepper Police Pursuit, Devil Tailwhip, Gangrene Tongue, Joe’s Hot Torture, The 13 Million Firecracker, The 14 Million Firecracker, Habanera Haymaker, Tastebuddies, and Magma Bloodflow; I can handle Brutal Death.” “Coming right up.” Jonas wiped his…
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Endurance
body awake – mind ticking wear tear – walk talk energy burned – reserves working sermons served – pace slowing man woman – last standing desire dyed with twice-stomped-on matches and rocky-cadence roads we’re the sons and daughters of ultramarathon runners and cactuses are too cucumbersome to care for outside the desert listen to your favorite…
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Lifestreaming
writers like to do this thing where they’re like “as i’m writing this, i sit on a laptop by a pool, by a living room with a bearskin rug and a broken chandelier…” they like to act astonished at the state of the moment “wow i’m using this machine to connect to other machines to…
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Dolphins
dolphins are conscious breathers meaning they choose to do what we do automatically there’s a radiolab episode featuring a dolphin trainer feeding her dolphin’s sexual appetite with a little hand love i wonder if the first time this trainer did this, she used the member of a member of her own species i wonder if…
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Mother
on mother’s day i wonder why today of all days i have to try to give a hug and sing a song and eventually say so long when all i want is to buy you a beach and let you feast on the finest foods in the east it’s not fair a visit can’t last…
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Spell
“I’m sorry, that’s not correct” She said, removing the dagger from his chest Sammy’s eyes paused the world And he retreated from the scene Students piled into the small auditorium Chatter bouncing off the brown-stained seats “It’s not fair,” Sammy thinks Harris Miller gets up to the stage and raises his arms Classmates laugh and…
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Perfect
I want to admit to a mistake But I have none I can remember I’m thinking real hard about this too Believe me, I want my chest tension to evaporate. I was a perfectionist for so long that I’ve become perfect I’ve perfected perfectionism
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Ghostwrite
she made her living ballooning a start-up founder’s image with verbs the paychecks shined brighter than the press tours “don’t you want your name on this?” says her concerned mother “no” the girl replied after the founder, was a surgeon who had a knack for bizarre cases after the surgeon, was the basketball star who…
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Unknown
sketches on creativity: -constant panic -humdrum numbness -borderline insanity -care to taste obscenery -sombrero insomnia -Ggold the 1+1 run around -unknown hormones -sysysysys -repetitive separation sensations for soul mold
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Undo
i feel like a stranger to myself how much is me how much is the weather no one is exempt from searching i can’t disappear i can’t shake the craving my coming of age owes a lot to the dot com boom so why hasn’t the internet solved all my goddamn problems yet? i lost…
Tyler Fugazzie 