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Tag: alcohol

“Pop” by Benjamin Schmitt

Posted on November 27, 2020

Getting all the feels with SZA tonight as that rack of wine from yesterday makes its way through my wrists and ankles Sometimes a voice can bury its dead in […]

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“The Crack Up” by Steve Carr

Posted on July 17, 2020

Morning, a hot wind blowing from the east sent the tall yellow prairie grass bowing in ripples toward the old house. Colin leaned against the wood post to the barbed […]

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“Clouds” by Adam Kelly Morton

Posted on March 29, 2020

Honey’s Pub is loud with live music, and there’s a full pint of lager in front of me. If I drink it, it’ll be my first in seven years.  I […]

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“Pink” by Izzy Martens

Posted on December 9, 2019

The small pink tube is pressed into the palm of my right hand. I am flicking the lid with my thumb, finding satisfaction in the incessant beat of the lever […]

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“Cupholder: A Road Buddy Romance” by Chuck Von Nordheim

Posted on January 14, 2019

Under a sulfur streetlamp, your crisscrossed polymer strips that carve berths for beverages from empty air reminded me of the elastic and steel rigs worn to hike stockings tight across […]

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“Ice Cream or Moxie” by Kristy Gherlone

Posted on August 12, 2018

In the heat of the summer, back when Willow’s mother slipped in and out of lunacy, sometimes she’d wake up at night to find her sitting on the edge of […]

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