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My doll watched

My doll watched

As we slipped off their dresses and dipped them one-by-one into their pool, Barbie stared, unchanged, and I thought of when I first unboxed her, newly four, half a shelf of dolls beside the built-in closet.
By JAKE Sep 6, 2023
The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down

The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down

I wanted once before to honk my horn against the swastika that he’d drawn on the poster board he got from the Dollar General, but I had the horn’s fuse pulled as a wild experiment in radical pacifism.
By JAKE Sep 5, 2023
Beef Case

Beef Case

The future is a vast and scary place, the recording says. Dead ends, dead dreams, destitution. Only if you’ve been pushing yourself hard enough do you have a chance. You have ten minutes of break. Step it up.
By JAKE Sep 4, 2023
The new clock

The new clock

and my heart is a crocodile mimicking death. I seek God in a temple
By JAKE Sep 2, 2023
Genesis

Genesis

no rib bones please!
By JAKE Sep 2, 2023
Malus

Malus

A Flash Fiction Trio
By JAKE Aug 31, 2023
Space Potato

Space Potato

Everything I think, everything I am is foreign.
By JAKE Aug 30, 2023

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