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Month: June 2023

A stone gargoyle on the top of some kind of ancient structure. Cracks in the stone gives the impression that the wings are spreading as if the creature was awakening.

Stone Moon
by Zachary Robert Long (247 words, estimated reading time: 1 minute)

Posted on June 25, 2023September 2, 2024 by Zack Long

You’re standing at the foot of a grand cathedral whose spires reach into the heavens themselves when out of the doors that are easily twice your height comes the guide you’ve been waiting for dressed like Jack The Ripper was torn out of the Victorian era and caught up in the grunge movement. Glancing around…

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Hundreds of bodies litter the ground. One image of the aftermath of the Jonestown Massacre.

The Jonestown Massacre (Cut-up)
by Zachary Robert Long (579 words, estimated reading time: 3 minutes)

Posted on June 4, 2023August 26, 2024 by Zack Long

THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE Let’s just be done with the agony of it – this revolutionary paranoia as autumn turned to winter in the year of 1978. In November 1978, the Californian congressman, Leo J Ryan, such a finale begins in the Deep South of America with the life of for help to leave Jonestown and…

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People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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  • Ruby Laughs
    by Zachary Robert Long (1304 words, estimated reading time: 6 minutes)
    (Ruby Laughs is a sequel to A Good Mother) She lays on the motel water-bed, her pregnant belly undulating with each breath, and though her face is...
  • The Way It Squirms
    by Zachary Robert Long (2100 words, estimated reading time: 10 minutes)
    The lump in Steven’s armpit stayed the same size no matter how many times he told himself it wasn’t there. Staring at himself in the bathroom...
  • The Skin Came Free
    by Zachary Robert Long (1441 words, estimated reading time: 7 minutes)
    The skin on my hands has been coming off lately. It starts by the nails, sort of folding back. Not quite tearing but slipping away. I...
  • Robert Cook Collection Item #0888
    by Zachary Robert Long (2856 words, estimated reading time: 13 minutes)
    During the final hours of October 10, 1961, Everett Turpin murdered his wife Dorothy Turpin with an ax. The following morning he drove his Ford F-1...
  • For the Entertainment of Strangers
    by Zachary Robert Long (3971 words, estimated reading time: 17 minutes)
    For Haleigh Masterton, the moment her stomach lining tore registered only as a dull ache. Nor did it slow her down any. It was simply another...

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