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In which the alien from "Alien" plays basketball

In which the alien from "Alien" plays basketball

in space, no one can hear the net go swish-swish.
By JAKE Sep 11, 2024
Through Some Coincidence

Through Some Coincidence

It’s just the rattling of the warm, yellow grass.
By JAKE Sep 10, 2024
Grief

Grief

“Made with love by Paula”
By JAKE Sep 9, 2024
Black coffee in a mug sitting ontop of a folded hat on lap in the hands of a person wearing a biege sweater, sitting outside.

GAZE

I come to him every day, every day in a new shirt.
By JAKE Sep 8, 2024
Aging ornate copies of Homer's The Iliad and The Oddyssey piled up in a tidy stack on a shelf.

The Would-Be Thief Pauses to Read About Homer’s Iliad

I hear the Famous Poet scoffs at the idea of an after-life that caresses us, preferring to believe in the remote Disneyland of the dead though even he must know that wherever the dead live, they’re not resting in peace.
By JAKE Sep 7, 2024
A jukebox lit by a neon display above it inside an otherwise low-lit bar.

The Power of Love

She pressed the trigger on the reacquired mace and yelled FUCKERS! YOU FUCKERS! YOU FUCKERS! through squinty eyes and indiscriminate aim.
By JAKE Sep 5, 2024
An articulated tyrannosaurus skeleton in a museum, among other fossils and recreations.

The Name Of The Buyer Was Not Disclosed

The representative from the auction house made him feel stupid for thinking it would appear at his compound intact, as it first had walked this land some eighty million years ago.
By JAKE Sep 4, 2024

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