“Usually around midnight I was slowly wading into Lake Michigan’s 58-degree water. Sometimes the trips were made in a little green kayak pantomiming a kazoo being dropped into a draining bathtub.”
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Melissa Patino is a native of Chicago and a graduate of Columbia College’s Fine Art program. In her […]
“But the warmth was even stranger. John Junior wondered why his sweat was thick and gushing from the back of his skull.”
“Joe fumbled to fire up the cigar. I’m not sure he’d smoked one since I’d known him. The ember burned uneven. Squinting through puffs of smoke, he nodded. I pulled the lever. The dirty old ride cart lunged forward through the doors.”
“His lines let loose, his mouth dried, his tongue
atrophied as a salt-soured snail,
he seemed to recede
made mad by a lynched mind,”
What if the final girl in a horror movie spent more time formulating a plan to foil the […]
“The tree my window took
snuck into my bedroom
as I peeled awake,”
