No one wants to accept that the person that they are would not put up with the person that they are.
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Jam Session: Just What I Needed
Jam Session: Slow and Low
A person only survives the danger they create for themselves by knowing what they are capable of.
Jam Session: Devil Inside
Joe spent every moment of his missing something but never figured out what.
Jam Session: Stories From Sounds (Announcement)
Jam Session is a FREE collection of poetry and short stories inspired by music released before 1995. Release info in post...
Review: Opus 21
The smugness that wafts from this book makes you smell like secondhand smoke. Be careful reading around others.
Closer
Listen to the story's song before reading “Help me…” I groaned; no one was around to care. I sat at a table outside the library, but with the way the story I was working on was violating me I may as well have been bent over. Up to then writing had been an escape, the... Continue Reading →
If I Ever Leave This World Alive
Listen to the story's song before reading My death was painless, quick, but the afterlife is a pop-up ad, inescapable. I think I remember looking one way but not the other, maybe the blow of a horn, definitely the thud of my body and CRACK of my skull against street. Even though I could think... Continue Reading →
Maggotbrain
Listen to the story's song before reading ‘Ya’ll have knocked her up.’ It was either the words that woke me up or the walls of my house shaking. Everything was dark, still again, but a murmur as confused as me drifted through the screens in my windows; I went outside expecting the same calm, starry... Continue Reading →
You Don’t Know How It Feels
Listen to the story's song before reading “You just can’t.” My dad said as I finished wrapping white tape around his gargantuan knuckles, “Not until you take a hit yourself.” I finished, dropped the hand to grab his left, started to wrap at the edge of one of the many bruises that colored his flesh.... Continue Reading →
