DEFINITE CONNECTION

Contributor: Brian J. Smith
Writing as Chance


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SHE EASES HIM ONTO THE EDGE OF THE BED AND STEPS BACK. SHE BITES bashfully on her thumb, stares seductively at him and slides her hand down the left crease of her strapless red dress; the front of the dress pushes her bosom high up on her chest. He shrugs off his camel-colored work shirt, lets the lamplight from the bedside table trace the contours of his rock-hard stomach, and tosses it over the back of a nearby chair. She slides the dress down her slender frame, exposes ashen skin pulled taut over her ribs and feels it caress her ankles on its way to the floor. He discards his blue jeans, leaves them in a heap around his feet and steps out.
“Looks like I’ve bagged me a good one.” She says.
“I was just about to say the same thing to you.”
Without hesitation, she jumps across the room and wraps her arms tightly around his shoulders. Their kiss is gentle as their tongues swab the caverns of each others mouths. Giggling through their kisses, she pushes him onto the bed, slides out of his grasp and licks his groin; she pants heavily as the lamplight now winks off the saliva
coating her tongue. He writhes under the blanket of euphoric pleasure she provides, sits up to watch her work and then lifts her up and casually tosses her on the bed.
She rolls over on her stomach, plants her knees into the bedspread and welcomes him in. Feeling every inch of him sliding into her, she moans under her breath and peers over her shoulder at him.
“Oh, God. Right there, baby.” She pants as she digs her white-knuckled nails into the bedspread. “Pound me now, motherfucker.”
Gripping her sides like they were handlebars, he drives his cock hard inside of her, pops her head back as he slides in and out, in and out. Her body racked by his pelvic thrusts, she stares down at the mattress as something deep inside grows hot and relentless. She feels it now and she loves every second of it as his cock plunges into her again and again and again. The bed springs creaks under their combined weight; the bleached wood headboard knocks against the rough yellow wallpaper and sends second-hand photos into a scratchy, swaying frenzy. She tugs on the bedspread again as their orgasms collide with one another; spilling his hot load inside her doubles him over and presses his stomach against her upturned buttocks.
Falling onto the bed together, she says, “That was great.”
“You were wonderful.”
She rolls over to the left and he flinches.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” She says, sounding apologetic. “I didn’t mean to—.” “It’s okay, honey. Everything seems to be intact.”
They look down past their stomachs and smile. The bright pink tube starts at the tip of his shaft and connects with the center of vagina; it pulsates like a helpless earthworm as it pumps a continuous depletion of sperm. He brushes a strand of hair away from her forehead and admires her in the glow of the bedside lamp. He can’t believe how pretty she is. He almost quivers when he stares into her vivid blue eyes.
“How many do you think we’ll have?”
“Two to three.” She says as she rests her head on his elbow.
“So many names,” He says and stares up at the ceiling with brown eyes bright by with both love and accomplishment. “so many possibilities.”


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Brian J. Smith has been featured in such anthologies E-Mails of the Dead, Book Of Cannibals 2: The Hunger, Pill Hill Press’ 365 Days of Flesh Fiction, Metahuman Press’ The Dead Walk Again and such magazines as Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine and New Voices In Fiction and such e-zines as Postcard Shorts, The Horror Zine, Thrillers Killers and Chillers, The Carnage Conservatory, The New Flesh and The Flash Fiction Offensive. He currently resides in Chauncey, Ohio with his mother, his brother the writer J.R. Smith and six dogs. His novella “Dark Avenues” is available for download for Kindle; he’s also available on Facebook and Twitter.
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One Last

Contributor: Sez A

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In darkness it’s easier to reminisce. It’s the dream you see, sucking my eyelids. The skeletal doctor hovering above performed an idle dance. But I recall your small voice, “resting”, it said, as I felt the abominate wriggling through my nose. The icy slumber is rotting, bitter rims painted with slime hardened and still you licked my torment in farewell


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Sez A likes words and draws things. She's a big fan of vodka.
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The Flasher Vampire

Contributor: Robert E. Petras

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I promised to give them something to remember
at the Halloween party for the rest of their lives,
me all dressed up as the Flasher Vampire.
I’d swing open my Count Dracula cape
and flash a big rubber dong and goose them all—
Snow White and the Seven Dorks, the Mojo Man,
Little Redneck Riding Hood, Prince Uncharming—
showed them all, showed Charlie Chaplin
some real slap-dick comedy as I dick-slapped
the gal wearing the nun costume, all the time
accosting them with my best Bela Lugosi “good evening,”
“Good evening, princess, good evening, Amish Amy,
good evening, your geekness and
I’d flash and swing my rubber dong and once told
the Genie if she rubbed it three times
I’d grant her three wishes.
Mullet Man I flashed, Wonder Bra Woman I flashed,
I even flashed them the flesh, then I flashed my fangs
--the real ones—
making good on my promise to give them something
to remember the rest of their lives,
what little remained,
their lives indeed gone in a flash.


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Robert E. Petras is a graduate of West Liberty State University and a resident of Toronto, Ohio. His poetry and fiction have appeared in more than 150 publications.
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Fuck Poetry

Contributor: Misti Rainwater-Lites

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They met at a poetry reading. Billy was the star poet. He sold six copies of his latest poetry collection, Use A Dick. Lori was a fan. Billy’s biggest fan ever, she claimed.

“Would you sign my book, please?” Lori asked Billy with a shy smile. Billy couldn’t take his eyes off Lori’s considerable cleavage.
“Certainly. What’s your name, babe?” Billy asked.
“Lori,” Lori said with a giggle.
Billy signed the book and handed it to Lori with a wink. Lori read the inscription. _Lori, I’d love to use my dick on you. Love & Stuff, Billy._ Lori blushed and giggled. She grabbed Billy’s black pen and scrawled her phone number on his left forearm.
“I’ll never wash my arm again,” Billy said.

The wino motel room lacked ambiance but Billy and Lori weren’t there for candles and roses. They weren't there for Rod Stewart and his ridiculous raspy lies. They weren't there for crown molding and champagne eclipse drapes. They weren't there for Monet prints and exquisite fern colored carpet.

Lori moaned as Billy spilled cheap merlot on her gargantuan breasts and licked it off. Billy sucked on Lori’s erect nipples. Lori grabbed Billy’s hair and begged for his dick.
“You want my dick, baby?” Billy murmured in Lori’s ear.
“Fuck yes I want it!”
“Where do you want it, sweetness?”
“I want it deep inside my pussy. My pussy is starving for your sweet dick.”

At least a dozen new poems, long ones, formed and pulsated in Billy’s brain as he used his dick on Lori, as he surrendered his dick to Lori’s throbbing pussy. Someday maybe he’d write the fuckers down.


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I like to drink beer and play with my vibrator.
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Karma

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A Forest

Contributor: Ted Minnow

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There were two humans walking in the forest. They had penises. They were walking towards a house.

Sam: “Are we there yet?”

Lauren: “Yes.”

And they were. There was a house, right there in the forest. It had all the normal things houses did, except for a door or windows. It was made of concrete. Out of the house stepped a person. Sam and Lauren had come to see this person.

“Hello, people,” said the person.

“Hello, friend,” Sam and Lauren said at the same time.

“Yes, come in.” The person thought Sam and Lauren were pretentious to use that word, friend. They were not friends. None of them were friends. None of them had friends.

But Sam and Lauren did. They thought they had many friends. There was the person who gave them entrance to the forest. There was that tree who was alive. There was this person now, who had come out of the concrete house. And there was the one inside they had come to see. That was a friend, in there, they thought.

Inside the house they saw the person they had come to see. The person showed them to the person they had come to see. Sam and Lauren sat in front of the person and bowed, to show their difference.

“Did you enjoy the forest?” the person asked.

“It’s a nice forest.”

“It is. And it would be better with animals. But that is why we are here.”

“What do we call you?”

“I am the Master with an upper case M,” said the Master.

“Good,” said Lauren.

“Good,” said Sam.

“Have a drink,” said the Master. The Master thought Sam was odd and Lauren was a foil.

“Thank you,” they said. They had the drink.

“Now,” said the Master. “Do you have your penises?”

“Yes,” they said. They handed the Master their penises.

The Master took their penises and held them up to the light, then used a machine to measure their length, their thickness. The Master waved the penises around, hit them against the walls, smacked the penises with an open hand, then a closed hand. While doing this the Master thought about a forest, somewhere else, with ideal things, especially animals.

“Good,” the Master said. “Where did you get these penises?”

“We got them from the tree who was alive,” Sam said. Lauren nodded.

“Wait!” said the Master, throwing the penises on the floor, into the corner. “What did this tree look like?”

Sam and Lauren looked at each other. Then they said, “We can’t remember.”

“Remember! Remember! What did the tree look like? Describe the tree to me!” The Master came to them and shook them, angry and violent.

“We cannot remember. We did not see.”

The Master growled from the chest. “I cannot accept your penises. Leave this house. Leave this forest. Go find another forest to ruin with your tree penises!” The Master pointed out the door. Sam and Lauren left the house.

They walked back through the forest the way they had come. They got to the tree who lived and looked at it for the first time. Then they looked around at the forest, at all the things there, at all the things missing. They looked at each other.

“You have a freckle on your nose,” he said.

“You have brown hair,” she said.


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Theodore Kanbe is a student at the University of Wyoming. A native of Wyoming, he strives to write out his mind.
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Any Summer Day

Contributor: Stacy Maddox

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I savor the way your thick seed
Runs quickly down my quivering thighs
As I stand to put on slowly, unhurried
My bikini bottom and suntan lotion

I take my own time with looks
Under hooded, satisfied green eyes
I haven't a care in the world
As you watch me flip streaked hair

You wander off to the kitchen
As I gather the towels and radio
Winding the dial up to the station
To music I'm in the mood for today

I close the sliding glass door
And make a path straight to you
Pinning you against the sink
Suggesting I want your sex again

Rubbing my hands, seeking you out
Sliding my sensitive, white breasts
Over the silver hoop that hangs
Through your small left nipple

Nibbling your ear, I feel you suck
Your breath in swiftly, almost startled
You're hard again, to my delight
I smile a secret smile to myself

Whispering words of lovers
I ask do you know
How good it really feels
To have your cum in my panties

Looking like a Cheshire Cat
I walk slowly back to the deck
Knowing that you will follow me out
And take me to this place again.


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Stacy Maddox lives, dreams and writes in the fast-paced city of Lawrence, KS. Stacy has been published in Shades Of Expression by Gerl Publishing, The Medulla Project, Daily Love, Emerge Literary Journal, Three Line Poetry and Mused: The BellaOnline Literary Review. She has been passionate about poetry, photography, music, quotes and stories for over 30 years.
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Ratkiller

Contributor: Andrew Ross

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Love is like Ratkiller. I came up with this idea a few months ago. I found rat droppings in my house and I could hear this rat running around in the walls and across the floor and shit when I was sleeping. So I bought some of those rat cages, those supposedly animal-friendly fuckers that poison the rat to death. I placed those cages all over the motherfucking house. I spent three days finding cupboards, closets, whole fucking crawl spaces I’d never even seen before—shit not even on the fucking blueprints—just so I’d be sure if this motherfucking rat was going to run around my house, then this motherfucking rat was going to run into a cage. You know what I’m saying? So I placed the cages carefully—commando style—and waited. I heard noises in the walls. The next day nothing. And I’m like, that’s right bitch. Don’t even try to fuck with me.
Except then, the third day, I hear running in the walls. This motherfucking rat wouldn’t die. This motherfucking rat was the baddest motherfucking rat of all bad motherfucking rats. He knew it, I knew it. So, I got my keys, started the car and started driving around the streets till I find a stray cat. I plop that raggedy ball of raggedy fur on the front seat and I grab it by the throat. I drive home with one hand on the wheel holding this scraggly furball with the other.
And I tell it, Listen I have this big bad motherfucking rat in my house. And I want you to kill it and eat it. Then I say, I don’t want to be friends. I’m using you for what I want and you’re getting what you need. But this rat is all you get. I don’t feed you, I don’t keep you. Just so we’re crystal clear on the nature of our relationship, I’m going to call you Ratkiller. Because that’s all you are to me.
And then I stopped at my house, threw Ratkiller inside and locked the door. Two days later I came home, opened the door, grabbed Ratkiller by the throat, threw her out, shut the door. Never seen rat or Ratkiller since.
Everyone knows his or her role in advance. No expectations. No one gets hurt.


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I am a graduate of the Fiction Writing graduate program at Johns Hopkins. I've published stories in Penn-Union and The Medulla Review, where my story "A Breaking Up" was anthologized. My original play "The Rebel" was produced and performed at the Avalon Theater in Easton, MD.
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Just to Be Sure

Contributor: Kymera Dix

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I’m eating, again.

I’m always eating.

It hurts not to.

Not like the hurt when I hit my baby toe, or somethin.

Oh, I admit that that =really= hurts...a lot.

This is more like a bad tooth ache or strep throat.

All over.

It don’t gradually go away on its own.

It stays and stays and keeps getting worser and worser.

Until I gotta take =sometin= to ease da hurtin.

My sumtin is food.

Soze I eat an eat an eat.

Stopped by da Chineze place onna way home tday.

Gotta shrimp eggroll.

Came home, picked out all doze teeny, tiny shrim.

Flustem.

Watched dey lil naked krussashun korpses swirl way into toilet blivian.

Awmoze fell comin owta da batroom.

geddin seepy nah

all dem pills

bedda take some mo

justa be sho

chasem wi beah

awmoz geddin too seepy t eat

dasa laff

bess eda ro nah

chazit

gutza churnin awweady

shrim jooz

gon lay don nah

faysh don

shud puke inna cupla owaz

b seep

wone no

schtopt nshuwanz las wee

justa b sho

heh


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Patricide: A Romance

Contributor: Chris Vola

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1.

One evening Uncle shat into your sister and reached for a towel.

“Snap Crackle and Pop,” he said, and you shoved his snakeskin then, for you and your sister, into the corner table next to him until its head split and he made you lick the ketchup off and your dad charged in and you were bellowing through the house with your tee shirts pulled up, fleeing to your room and hidden under your blanket, exposed. You thought they would smack your bellies then.

Instead, things were quiet for hours. You fell asleep being aliens. Afternoons spent you up.

Your asleep sister was fine, then screaming at the wall, “We’re not afraid of you,” regenerated, grown into two new heads, mothlike as she jumped, punctuating the word kitchen and wanting to know if you wanted some and laughing like crazy. At some point your sister’s throat slit was swallowing mint chips, silently muttering.

The weirdness of being a twentysomething. The things that make Rice Krispies (the snapcracklepop), the things that make your snake. You hadn’t considered the sharp things you did. You smeared ketchup on slices cracked open, your sister’s slices.

Your sister started wailing and left the bread on both your plates. You ran around demanding to know what had happened. You, your heads, arms still in the sleeves, stomachs expecting horrible punishment at any moment.

Oyoyoy! you thought.

Eventually your dad woke and came in. His head had split in two. “Uncle the Grouch!” you shouted that over and over.

Uncle came in, having some ice cream in his “grouch” and landing on your back slits instead of the front ones. You tottered from the kitchen as one expressing displeasure at a given situation.

Your dad licked his lips. “Snap Crackle and Pop,” the old mouth.

One remembers the origin of this phrase.


2.

At the side of the water mattress, your dad had the morning, yelling the orders back to your sister, watching the TV, whatever was on anymore. He only poured coffee to read the paper.

The court roundup was messy, lots of ketchup, and he gave you and your sister wet naps. He didn’t read the deaths. He didn’t have to.

“Right your snakes!” your sister belched to everyone in particular, drooling ketchup.

That night, your bodies wriggled like slugs drowning in salt rain.


3.

Your dad took you into the city. He liked to scratch his ticket around.

While you waited in the gas station parking lot he bought sandwiches and a lotto – it was a Powerball day. The ride had been short, but your sister was scared of the radio and the fall asleep:

“Everything is good! Everything is really good,” squawked the same radio people who make America the country.

What you thought they were saying was like before you were a twentysomething when your dad had had to come in to buy the Ceremonial Super-Lotto in Bushwick and there’d been no more but you said how you liked to eat oranges, so your dad had bought several.

The fleshy bone is gross, you thought. Tradition traduces no oranges.

“Home Depot?” the gas station man asked when he came to the car back with your dad.

Can you imagine how happy your dad was! This used to be what the men he used to bring to the car called Home Depot, but that had been before Uncle, before whatever else your dad had told you was in the papers. Before your dad had to drive his post-suburban vehicle forty-five minutes to welcome “women-boys and gays” and everybody else in the metropole who knew how to get to your Home Depot. It had been a requirement.

“Once you were airstrikes in São Paulo,” the gas station man muttered as he unbuckled your buckles and licked at his mustache. “Once you were telemarketers in Sri Lanka. Once you were e-readers in bull rings.”

Your sister rubbed the gas station man’s belly and before biting his open snakeskin winked at you and whispered, “We have been enough.”


4.

The highway was closed. FASCIST-DOGMA-NECTAR-OVERFLOW streamed across the ketchupy sky.

“We only cradle what we distill,” you dad muttered to the absence of space or maybe the rear-view.

“I dream of ATMs burning,” your soggy sister moaned into your ear.


5.

Back in the kitchen your dad made you old catfish from the grill. Before that, you ate on ping pong balls.

“Stop it,” your sister said. “Fuck, fuck, fuck,” or “You’re off.”

You never actually did it, you never screamed in the kitchen.

At a quarter to seven, the tsunami your dad had told you about brought Uncle in the door and let him use the bathroom. He was teary eyed, Uncle. Your sister made him wipe his finger sometimes, then, too.

You had a memory of Uncle’s cracking on your face. When you cocked your head back because you could just feel it melting. Uncle made you do things you didn’t want to, he had really cracked the Home Depot Code.

Did you know what was even weirder tonight? His new boxer shorts, and then you were both wet-legged?

Always a soggy way for Uncle.


6.

Excitation is an elevation of energy level above an arbitrary baseline energy state. Your sister’s brain did not know that the lifetime of a system in an excited state is usually short.

Your dad dropped your sister in mid-air. She fell into Uncle’s “grouch,” both pockets filled with pajamas. You wanted to run upstairs to hide in your room.

“Don’t you dare,” your dad belched, and “God, don’t twist my words around,” spitting at Uncle’s tsunami-slick mouth. You tip-toed over to the freezer. You had to do it.

“I broke my neck! I broke my neck!”

Your sister’s pieces rolling in the spilled ketchup, at least forty pints.


7.

The next afternoon, Doctor came into the room for a chat. She liked to scratch her ticket around.

She couldn’t understand the ketchupy kitchen – “And on a Powerball day,” she clucked, her brown hair flopping in catfish oil from the grill while the TV laughed into a speech.

Your sister sucked on ping pong balls. Her machine sucked.

And for no good reason.

You removed the lid from the cookie tray. Mint-chip cookies Doctor had made. Doctor stood there in the dark for a minute. You liked her helium voice, you liked her white bread. You liked her jotting fingers. Your sister’s swollen stitches were an alien way. Doctor made you both take a picture of it.

Your sister sucked.

Doctor made a cluck, and your dad woke and came in the kitchen.

This is what Doctor did: she stabbed your dad with frowns and mega-clucks like her brow was bigger than Brooklyn.

But your dad was smart. Your dad was crafty. He was Crafty the Grouch. He knew what to do. He looked alien sad, and then found his escape in Doctor’s white shoe, started doling out nicknames to what happened when your sister’s head tsunamied the ketchup, when the karmic assload flooded out of the kitchen:

“Uncle would have stopped, but he wasn’t in the breakdown lane,” and, “It’s bad glands.”

Doctor was so fat she couldn’t hold her pen any longer. Her fingers stopped jotting.

“To ruminate is not to be right,” she told your dad.

“Snapcracklepop,” he grinned.

As Doctor spooned you mint chips, a shimmer of dead skin sailed furiously across her heel. She sighed, knowing that she could, that summer evening, lay thick and still upon her Brooklyn bed.

“Your family has good teeth,” she explained, an abstract theme that meant everything was Powerball good: you and your sister would have catfish from the grill and Uncle would remember and behave within the Code.

She made your dad wipe his finger before she heaved into her idling Hummer and shot off to Wal-Mart for the sale on Succulent Melanomas.

Your dad’s dark lips curved like pomegranates.


8.

The earthquake brought Uncle in the door at a quarter to seven.

Uncle?

Oyoyoyoyoyoy! you thought.

He spread his worksheets out across the kitchen, and some soggy yogurt for you and your sister. Your dad made him wipe his finger, smiled, smiled, then frowned when he remembered Doctor and the Code.

Do you know what your dad did? He pulled over Uncle, communicated to him in furrows and whisperings, just like the Universe was his brow.

“Slit it back up inside,” and, “It’s better on your face than your hands.”

He paused, then, “Sike!”

Uncle had good teeth. He let you and your sister see their size.

You had to swallow mint chips not to scream, you had to find a semi-quiet area, or, in a sense, a non-word.

Where is it? Or, What? Or, Oh!

Your sister sucked on ping pong balls. Her machine sucked.


9.

The things you did when no one was looking.

Here is what happened: Your sister’s scrunched toes against Uncle’s chilly grinning face, the wet under his plaid trousers just starting to quicken. Your dad was in the corner, answering four a.m. phone calls –

“It was about the lake,” and, “He brought her to the Far Side,” and, “Deep in winter and nobody was around.”

Your sister screamed and you knew you had to do it.

You tip-toed past your dad, the fridge was open, and you shoved Uncle’s snake, more than snakeskin because the corner table crushed his thin tin dome near the base of his ketchupy brain. His big nose? There would be no more soggy way.

Your sister’s smug smile of satisfaction, the first in the history of the kitchen.

Uncle’s face was stuck in a perpetual crackle, the feeling of having the shit thrown
out of his molecules. But you hadn’t dared to smile because your dad was smart. Your dad was fast. Your dad flew from the corner faster than your sister could say “Cheap-ass-dirtbag!” and snapcracklepop, and he was squatting on top of your chest, screaming into your face, way, way, way crazier than ever.

“The Code!” he screamed, “THE CODE!”

He wasn’t going to stop, he was way past the breakdown lane. But he didn’t know that after you shoved Uncle sense, your sister had obtained non-screaming-mantra-status, this new kind of steel-hard self-identity. You saw your sister the alien lift the Magic Marker over your dad’s white bread.

You saw your sister the alien slice through your dad’s ugly ceiling.

You saw your dad’s rubbery eyes plop onto your face like a piece of catfish smacking against the kitchen floor. It was ketchup-overload.

That was why you started laughing, why you couldn’t stop even when your sister the alien made you wipe your finger, when she made you swallow mint chips.

“Snap, crackle, and…POP!” you laughed again and again.


10.

Doctor made you take a picture of it. Then she made you look again.

“I feel really sorry for you,” one of her favorite accusations, and “Time, after all, can only perform so many operations at once.” She reminded you of a pay phone booth
that was missing its pay phone.

Her fingers didn’t have to jot down anything anymore. Your sister looked past the kitchen, the door with its bell, the shards of sirens in the front yard, the highway, the slit of ketchup-light in the trees.

Nobody was around. You didn’t know where they were at.

Remembering her idling off-road artillery vehicle and the heavy afternoon traffic, Doctor stood up. Teary-eyed, she left yogurt and catfish, trying to remember her place within the Code.

No, she couldn’t bring you home, “but you were relatively young and could be anything” – writers of love poetry, Turks with smartphones, banana-yellow Blue-Staters.

“Leave our soggy pocket to make its own time,” your sister snarled, “we have been enough.”

Doctor nodded, then vanished in a cloud of formaldehyde and diesel-fuel. It was now your job to realize that you and your sister were really alone.

That evening, you both fell asleep being aliens.


11.

Two molecules must influence each other in such a way that they function as a more or less stable whole.

Your organism must water and flower. Your sister’s organism must metabolize. Your organisms drank twenty-five Mexican Screwdrivers and stabbed with cracked retinas.

Crumbling train to Brooklyn, your self-righteous pilgrim.

Mutual symbiosis and a torn black pigment. A bleached asshole. Your sister labeled this variation morphogenesis, she labeled your smoked-out apartment a chemical factor, she labeled her hips a sudden white streak. You discarded the ability of your systems to maintain a stable condition by means of multiple dynamic equilibrium adjustments controlled by interrelated regulation mechanisms.

Your sister imagined how filthy the gas station man’s sandals must have been.

A sound: your sister’s ketchup nails carving the backbone of six blind stanzas separated by a sparrow at the window grate. His white bread, your snake, the real contraction of all that passed by.

“Omne vivum ex ovo,” your sister moaned, until your ears spilled the taste of your dad’s deep-fried mistake.


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Chris Vola is the author of a novel, Monkeytown, forthcoming from S A M Publishing. He lives in New York.
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