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Dream Monster
"Dream monster has your eyes and the mole at your nape. / Dream monster has your name, your voice, and your fears. / Its eyes are beads. The beads, a precursor to a prayer."
Next Year’s Model
"Don Draper is hearing footsteps. In 'Dark Shadows,' Episode 9 of Season 5 of Mad Men, Don notices that most of the agency's best ads are being written by Ginsberg."
Punchlist, Week of 5/14/12
Kids are coming home from college and bringing home stuff you thought they needed--but didn't. Sonja Yoerg learns her lessons.
Marte And Me
"Coach Siddons threw a pass that spiraled square and true toward my chest. And, because already as a young boy I had made an enemy of God, I somehow caught it."
Fulfilled
"He spent ________ on ________, eventually exchanging it for ________. / That ________ helped. / In her purse were gift cards worth ________. There was ________ she wanted to buy."
A Summer Story
The Punchnel's Summer Story Contest is now open to submissions. We want short fiction--1,000 words or fewer. And we want them by June 1.Recent Stories
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The Poes’ Private Library
"The two of them smiling in front of me, silent, with their big creamy faces, was just unnerving. And then I wasn't sure ... if they'd switched places or not. One of them had an extremely wispy moustache. I hoped that was Mr. Poe." Rolli meets the Poe's.Continue reading
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To My Boyfriend After I Read His Journal
"However, when I do think back on mistakes I’ve made, there is one event that has always stood out to me: a small thing, but one that still irritates me." It's what Cynthia White should (or shouldn't) have said.Continue reading
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Everything And More
"He ignored the cigarettes and chocolate bars – The currency of the post-apocalypse, read his sticky note. Do. Not. Consume. – and dug past the handful of gold coins gathered in a ratty Crown Royal bag." Remley explores the legendary "Doomsday Kit." And it's more than chocolate and cigarettes.Continue reading
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Things You Can Do While On Painkillers Recovering From Surgery
"At some point, even videos of animals are going to start being hard to follow. You need to watch some videos of people trying on shoes." People trying on shoes might be more interesting than it sounds. Or maybe not. Jen Bingham explains.Continue reading
Indianapolis / Visuals /
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Square Share: Art, Stories, And You
300 people on Indianapolis's northwest side shared short stories of objects or wishes that were important to them--then artists illustrated the stories. Tonight at Service Center, they're all on display. Yes, you should go.Continue reading
Bet You Don't Know / Features /
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Bet You Don’t Know: Break Of Reality
"But there I sat one evening, stooped over my keyboard like a literary Hunchback of Notre Dame, pounding out sentence after strained sentence. Occasionally, I paused, casting my eyes heavenward as I begged for inspiration." All Nicole Rossneeded was a Break of Reality.Continue reading
First Person / Gorked /
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Love Oh Love, Oh Careless Love
"When Real Love glanced my way, then gave me the nod, I went gladly, even knowing that damage and sorrow would come too. No experience is pure, and even when stupidly young, I knew that much. I knew the costs." Ashley Walker on Real Love.Continue reading
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MusicNorth Of The Border, Back To The Seventies
"Contrary to the image their name conjures, Zeus isn't a thundering Greek metal band. Rather, they're a Canadian rock band who wear their 70s influences proudly on their sleeves." Tim Wilsbach is a new fan.
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