First Contact (part 3)

First Contact (Part 3) by Shady Rose I was selfish. Perhaps I was the only one who grasped the magnitude of my good fortune. To be the first Earthling to contact the outside universe in millenia was no small task. I knew that there would be many in my community who regarded the arrangement with […]

funeral for store brand whole grain

Funeral for Store Brand Whole Grainby Shady Rose I’m just going to get rid of a fuck ton of stuff right now instead of holding onto it forever saying I’ll donate it I just donated most of my clothes and shoes and whatever they probably don’t need the random half-broken shit lying around my house […]

This is Not A Place of Honor

You might be disappointed to know that all our plans for the nuclear waste sites went to hell. You know, all those glorious and Romantic designs we made thinking “Later civilizations must understand this: We mean danger, death, and DO NOT ENTER.” We really should have known by then what humans are like. After all, […]

English Literature, Sophmore Year, University

I yawn. My mouth stretches, gaping wider than you’d thought was possible and an inhuman groan rumbles up from somewhere in the vicinity of my sternum. You wonder how such a petite girl can make such a viscerally unsettling sound without effort. As my frame groans on its hinges, settling back into its place from […]

Bernie Girl

Last night I had this dream : I went to a coffee shop downtown to work on The Next Great American Novel and suddenly, to my right, I notice a weathered, sad man staring blankly down into a cup of coffee and jim beam. His white hair is in stark disarray, his eyes purple and […]