Things categorized as 'Yarns'
Spoons
By Michael Plemmons, art by Adam Myers A month ago my brother Marty quit chemo -- said screw it, no more billing. Which is fine, that was his call. But then Marty cashed ...
Alarmed
By Matt Tuckey “I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert ...
Color Bind
By Michael C. Keith There is only one way of seeing them, and that is,seeing the whole of them.--John Ruskin Life forms from V12 in the NGC4203 galaxy 10.4 million light years from Earth ...
Tintamarre-ruckus-bedlam-pother-and-brawl, Behave!
By Bosley Gravel It all started when Eugenia looked out the window one Saturday morning and saw children peddle by on their bikes. "Sometimes," she said to Ruth, her partner of four decades, ...
An Honest Attempt
By Bosley Gravel Me and Lulu-Mae were having a right tasty Sunday lunch in the meadow when Lulu-Mae said, "Lyle, just when are you going to make an honest woman out of me?" I ...
The Story of the Oogaloogaman
By Josh Mulholland This is the story of the Oogaloogaman. I heard it from Roger, who heard it from Shaun, who knows it's true. If I tell it to you, you have to ...
Where is the Enchilada of Death?
by Jen Burke Anderson Stomach flu. Days of lying on your back at the mercy of mutant molecules coiling viciously up your brain tubes, of your neurons unlinking and firing randomly into the ...
With Virgil
By Josh Mulholland Behind the polyglas the sky was orange over the city. The white towers were tall and thin, with minaret tops. Just like the snow asparagus FourMother cloned in the agrovat, ...
The Rattlesnake Train
By Shekky the Bastard This is a horrible story about the Rattlesnake Train -- what it is, who gets to ride on it and what happens to them while they're travelling ...
Magic Mirror
By J. Wilson Bob knew he had a magic mirror when he held up a copy of Sonic Youth’s “EVOL” to it. It was the big mirror looking into his room, mounted ...
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