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Submitted to Contest #252
Resolutions are like assholes he sighs. His distinctive voice burnt ash ground under a boot toe. The inevitable outcome is shit. He pulls a pack of Marlboro reds from his chest pocket, extracts one and snaps his thumb on the knurled wheel of a weathered, chrome Zippo igniting a stubby flame. New Years Day brings out the curmudgeon in him. "What'll you have, Unc?" I ask spinning a cardboard coaster down on the bar before him. The zippo snaps closed with a satisfying metallic clink and he pulls long on the cigarette, the answer on hold as he ...
Submitted to Contest #230
“You pulled the arm off, bitch!” Liz screams full savage, putting every ounce of muscle and every string of tendon and ligament into the swinging arc of her fist. A pressure release pop beneath her knuckles of porcelain wresting from gum. The clinks of precious white China onto tile. Viscous streams of crimson follow, gloopier than she expected. The moment sears into Liz’s psyche joining her first period and her first orgasm and her first boyfriend, and now this, her first time punching a bitch’s teeth out.The most desperate Moms take the bi...
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