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The Spot

I wonder if this something I should get repaired or something

A picture of Frida Kahlo's "Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" taken as it hangs in the museum, two museum goers standing in front of it.

Lorette C. Luzajic

Wild Things

When they married, Frida was already here.

Amy's Perfect Life

Amy's Perfect Life

“You deserve to be seen.”

Real Magic

"Felix can't always control his magic," she confided.

The silhouette of three goats against the sunset.

Night Rescue

“One of the goats is out."

Party goers in a club.

The Holy Land

You must have the wrong Rodney Wilder.

A chef knife laid out next to cooking ingrediants, including a pink cut of salmon and some white carrots

5:02:37PM

Alice wasn’t good at explaining herself when Gary got annoyed.

Water rushing across river rocks.

Where The Water Took Me

Baptism, in fact, won't save them at all.

A hummingbird drinking from a flowe

A Bird Called Wonder

A hummingbird is special.

Rosa Canina

Grip the woody rose’s stem, bend before it.

A hand wearing a sanitation glove holding out a shining white bag with a white feather duster inside of it.

BLOSSOM

“I’m just here for a sage stick.”

A tattoo artist working on a client's forearm.

Jerry & Company

A tattoo artist longs to be known for their work.

A dark, wet sewer tunnel, with light showing on the other side.

Sewer City

What that means: the man and woman are able to scream.

Two black cats walking along a road.

The Untold Roar

He assigned the cat no name.

The silhouette of a coyote standing on a hill at sunset.

Animal Control

I’m going to train you all to hunt coyotes.

A wristwatch on a person's arm.

The Pendulum Swings for No One

Dad says time travelers can’t hurt us.

A ray of light falling over an empty bed.

Unknown Number

Valentines was only a week away.

A small brown and white pony screaming in a field

A CASE FOR NECROMANCY IN THE QUEST FOR PEACE

It’s a no brainer! Get it? No brainer

A naked baby bird in a nest, the nest built in the bough of a pine tree.

A Wickedness

He wanted witnesses, always.

A sillhoutted bird flying over a sunset.

Waterbird

Sometimes she thought about escaping

Square blocks of cereal in milk in a blue bowl against a mustard yellow background.

Grown adult Bill Murray purchased a box of Jojo Siwa Strawberry Bop cereal because

How ingestion begets excretion.

A group of raccoons huddled together against a chain-link fence.

The Myth of Trash Pandas

The first time Daisy and I did cocaine was our sophomore year of high school.

A film production clapboard in front of a set.

The Bionic Teen

In a prophetic vision he’d witnessed a white-winged angel place a golden crown on my head

Big Tony

That’s what matters, what’s in your heart.

From Merrily We Go A-Wrong: My Philosophical Laundryman

Jonathan Dubow Wants Your Dovetails

From Merrily We Go A-Wrong: My Philosophical Laundryman

The joke’s not funny if I have to explain it to you.