He wished he hadn’t done it. Or that she couldn’t read his writing. Or that she hadn’t found the diary. Any one of those would do.
Ray Templeton started writing in Scotland but now does it in England.
When told the Backstreet Boys had broken up she took the cassette, her only one, out of the Walkman and crushed it. That’s Africa for you.
Matt Timlin: an underpaid overworked med student.
The drunk woke and saw a long tunnel ahead. Believing he was dead, he entered the tunnel and was hit by a train. Then he saw another tunnel.
Jack Horne hopes there’s some consolation in death: finally knowing the answer!
They asked what subject they liked most, and then they gave an answer that satisfied them. And that was one conversation.
Brian Yoder lives in Portland, OR. He had two cats.
She was a virgin when we married, and had been so sheltered, that somehow I never got around to telling her that it was reconstructed.
Sometimes Shelby Davis arrives to work late because he’s been up all night writing about people whose hobbies end in personal disaster.
Her mother sniffed it out first. He’s not a good boy for you—not authentic. The flowers were real though. From their front yard, but real.
Michael Rudin can be followed (@mikerudin) or ogled.
I stand alone, caught in the shadows of your real life, lost and paralyzed in the darkness. You love me, just not enough to pull the blinds.
K. Sea is greedy and appreciates that wanting more is an inherently human flaw.
Today, I bought my first politician. He’s a cute, chubby thing. And obedient. Or so his previous owner tells me.
Kristle Chester is a freelancer with a warped sense of humor.
“Having grandma for dinner is great,” she said. I gently reminded her that Nana surely wouldn’t have wanted her to talk with her mouth full.
Merton Sussex is a Minneapolis-based copywriter, and a writer/editor at DiaryOfFools.com. He loves his wife, and his dogs.
Sunday morning and I have to leave the orgy because I’m late for ninja practice again.
Ryan Ridge edits Faultline and has work in or coming from Abjective, Juked, Kitty Snacks, Pindeldyboz, Wigleaf, and others.