This story was a finalist for the 2021 MAYDAY Fiction Prize The first letter came on a Monday morning; Patty knew it was Monday because her head hurt from Sunday drink specials. When she opened her eyes, the room spun like it did every morning. “Holy shit!” came her brother’s voice from the kitchen. […]
an excerpt from THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MARVIN K. MOONEY by Christopher Higgs Sator Press 352 pp. $13.99 Prolegomenon [Mooney unashamedly delivered this paper—which amounts to a glowing critical appreciation of his own creative work—at the 2001 Symposium for Postmodern Studies, to a room full of colleagues who reportedly felt a collective discomfort. Mooney, however, seemed […]
Old Cappy, also known as Christian Klinefelter III, Captain in the Royal Navy, stood at the helm staring off at the horizon with a posture so stiff he looked as if someone had stuck a stick up his arse. It was 1789 and The Ophelia was somewhere off the Russian coast. Where they were, he didn’t have […]
