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Punchlist, Week of 5/20/13
"Pretend this is the first you have ever heard of the Tactical Adventure Medical Preparedness Outdoors Necessity." Creek Stewart introduces you to the tampon.
Old Earth/New Earth (After Eckhart Tolle)
"The old earth seems solid enough / even though the continental plates / might fall to the kitchen floor / at any time and shatter" A new poem by Dan Grossman>
A Modest Proposal to the Internet’s Self-Appointed Grammar Experts
"Dear friend, you’re not Hitler. You’re not even Goebbels or Himmler or any of those guys." John King has a proposition for you.
The Arrangements
"We turned to the door. It was the moment of truth. It was the moment of truth because I had not been entirely honest when I presented my idea to Hyo." A new serial by Dagny Renner.
Jennifer Aniston Comes to Stay Awhile
"We watched the tabloid show for another four hours and drank another four old fashioneds apiece." New fiction by Jared Yates Sexton.
Mythic Indy: Call for Submissions
Mythic Indy is a planned anthology of invented myths about Indianapolis neighborhoods and landmarks--and we want your contribution.Recent Stories
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Rules of Thumb
"Properly approached, it’s a viable alternative for getting cheaply from point A to point B, even if those points are on opposite sides of the country." Jim Courter offers some rules of thumb for hitchhikers.Continue reading
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Believe It Or Not
"We're not sure what's real and what's not, and it makes for an unsettling and ultimately confusing hour of television." Ken Honeywell leans into the confusion.Continue reading
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The Arrangements
"George had sprung for something more impressive. Put a six-year-old in the way of these bouquets and she’d flatten, breathless in the best case, rib-crushed in the worst." Chapter 2 of Dagny Renner's serial.Continue reading
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Out of Darkness
"You need to bring your own devotion with you to the cinema, otherwise Bones and Uhura and the rest are anonymous." But if you do, says Matt Jager. If you do...Continue reading
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The Narnia Moths
"Moths hover round me as I walk down the street. No one turns to look but I see them—feel them, too. Sometimes they touch me with their dark, dusty wings." New fiction by Brenda Anderson.Continue reading
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Weird Beauty Rituals: Mustache Mayhem
"The first tool I reached for was a razor, and dispatched with the new growth with a few relatively clean sweeps. One week later, I was stricken with a horrific combination of an ingrown hair and a fresh mustache now made of short, lopped-off, obvious hairs." Sarah Murrell fights the good fight.Continue reading
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The Care and Feeding of Strays
"Ratsnacker the Brave is black with a grey undercoat. She's diminutive and has a z-shapedkink in her tail. She walks with an odd shoulder lurch, not unlike John Wayne." A feral cat adopts Camille Griep.Continue reading
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FilmOut of Darkness
"You need to bring your own devotion with you to the cinema, otherwise Bones and Uhura and the rest are anonymous." But if you do, says Matt Jager. If you do...
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