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A pile of different pill-form medications.

The Cut-Ups Volume 1: Medicated Death
by Zachary Robert Long (851 words, estimated reading time: 5 minutes)

Posted on July 11, 2023August 26, 2024 by Zack Long

The following cut-ups were created using the index of a hack medical text and a  poorly researched chapter on Jonestown. Images of the cut-ups can be found at the bottom of the page. 1. Premenstrual syndromeas vaginal lubricant,breast discomfort and,prenatalVomiting,and,nausea WartsofWaspsanddiarrheaimpure bone exercisebyinsomniaBlistersfromshingles,Blood.coughing upin eye,urine,circulation. 911constipation fromarthritis foot odorhemorrhoids,insectlegsproblems and,self-treatment,   2.still reverberates in the…

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A pile eggs in hay. The eggs are green-with-black-spots.

Be My Buddy (Cut-Up)
by Zachary Robert Long (943 words, estimated reading time: 5 minutes)

Posted on July 3, 2023August 26, 2024 by Zack Long

I suddenly felt calm. And sleepy. I drifted into her little baby face. Opens her green eyes wide, did things with white rats. me. Covering me. feeling I’m anybody’s fuck here? I felt so warm beneath it. speed. The egg creatures moved with surprising work. dozen heartbeats. entire body shuddered from fear. Because they were…

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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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A lonely, back country road enveloped in mist. Two headlights in the distance reveal a car traveling towards the viewer.

More Precious Than Jewels
by Zachary Robert Long (1669 words, estimated reading time: 7 minutes)

Posted on May 24, 2023August 26, 2024 by Zack Long

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ – Matthew 15:4 The darkness hung around the car like a death shroud. The headlights could barely cut through the fog rolling in from the eastern river that circumvented the small town they were…

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An empty swing-set

The Swing
by Zachary Robert Long (1639 words, estimated reading time: 7 minutes)

Posted on November 27, 2021August 26, 2024 by Zack Long

Joey was out of his desk and pulling open the classroom door before the bell rang for the second time. He was the first kid in the hall, rushing headlong down it’s length towards the double doors that screamed freedom. “No running in the halls!” Mrs. Lightfoot called out after him in vain. They both…

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A cat stares into the void

The Kid and the Cat
by Zachary Robert Long (2581 words, estimated reading time: 12 minutes)

Posted on November 26, 2021August 26, 2024 by Zack Long

He had read an article about it once. Guy’s alone at his parent’s place with the family cat while they go shopping. Thinks what the hell and sees for himself why they call it pussy. Family comes home to find the cat with a wrecked asshole and…end of story. Good for a couple laughs, maybe…

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