Hallelujah

Contributor: Ryan Swofford - - Hallelujah wants to meet her savior. She’s sitting on the flower mattress, shivering uncontrollably and biting her red tongue. Her wet hair dangles before her eyes. She’s scared because she just had a vision—before you met her, she was shaking wide-eyed and wide-mouthed on the bed with her duck shoes in the air. She was watching a bloody bearded Jesus, skin and bones, as he wandered the Sonoma, looking for a place to stay. The Sonoma was Minneapolis, Minnesota. He came back. He was coming back. He is coming back. Her little brother, Ronnie, he came over to check on her last night, when she was having the vision I told you about. He came in using the spare key and dropped a cheap bottle of wine on the sofa. He called her name: “Holly!” but she didn’t answer of course. He wandered around the little one-bedroom...
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Jay and Ruthie

Contributor: Steven Kain - - Jay and Ruthy were in love cause Ruthy loved Jay and Jay loved Ruthy back and neither of them gave a good god damn if you liked it so screw off and that was their view of the situation for the longest time. Ruthy was a calendar collector. She had a calendar for every day of the year. She pinned them up on the walls of their itty bit four room apartment. She did not have space for the Decembers so she taped those to the windows. Kitty cats, dogs, nature, tv shows, men and women models. Ruthy liked to look at every day as a day of the month and a day of the year in and of itself. Jay was a Bible thief. He preferred the King James versions but any Bible would do, those New Testament pocket Bibles or the Teen easy reading Bibles, children’s Bibles with pictures. Every Sunday he would visit a new church and steal...
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