Main Squeeze Literary JournalIf I can’t eat twelve dogs with a fine chardonnay, what chance do I have competing against the great Joey Chestnut? My staff will be at the event wearing company merch and they will not be happy if I tap out early, so I have to put on a good show. Eating hotdogs in public […]
I’m half-ass dressed. it’s snowy outside.you tell me about being seven and wanting more than your parents. how your first lover didn’t do it right. I say: nobody deserves you, especially me. We tangle and sip ciders. watch comedies with leading ladies. eat fruit medleys.we’re outside in the sunset. i’m vulnerable. I tell you about Laura. about us sneaking behind Crown BBQ. being […]
Ruth hated this bathroom since they moved in. The salmon-colored walls and seafoam green shower curtain made her feel sick. The coyote painting, with a demented-looking eye and whiskers that looked like a ‘stash, had always made Ruth feel a little embarrassed to undress. The coyote was always watching from its place on the wall […]
you invite me over for drinks and I hate drinking but i’m doing it anyway because that’s what you expect of me. I am distant and dizzy. you love it. you planned it. you kiss me here and there and i’m enjoying it and you and then i’m not. you’re stroking my hair and other parts but all I […]
The sad little dictator is neither a handsome man nor an ugly one. He has a weak chin. He smokes imported cigars that he is assured are the best in the world, takes one out on the balcony of his room, looks out over the sparkling lights from town. Mine, he thinks, mine. Stubs the […]
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