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I had a key to the back door of the house and when the lock turned you developed this sense all the organs in the house were twisting, that the bolt wa…
Caleb Garling
Jan 21
Denying that I slept in my chair became a ritual of horses. The manager would come up the aisle and rap my throat and say where are you and I would poi…
Caleb Garling
Jan 15
A blue carpet ran the hallway. Right outside my door and became a deep white right outside my door. There was a table at the end of the hall, near the …
Caleb Garling
Jan 8
Do you know the pale morning dun? It’s a mayfly. About this big. Trout go crazy for them. A few years ago I went camping on a lake in the southern Sier…
Caleb Garling
Jan 1
My grandmother first described the treasurelock as the place where St Francis of Assisi’s fingers crossed before his ribs — she did not say chest — as …
Caleb Garling
Dec 25, 2020
There I was sterile as a ping pong ball calling out toys, I never call out toys, but they kept coming into my store waving their lottery tickets, like …
Caleb Garling
Dec 18, 2020
I rose and made it halfway to the sink before, my mind so shot through with holes, I fainted and smacked off the countertop. My girlfriend screamed. I …
Caleb Garling
Dec 11, 2020
“And now I’ll take it off,” she said in faux-dramatics, grinned and removed her yoga pants. She planted one foot on a chair, threw back her head and po…
Caleb Garling
Dec 9, 2020
Sketch my eyes across a deck of cards, the king said to his artists. The royal optics, contractions of the iris and elevations of the celebrated eyelid…
Caleb Garling
Dec 9, 2020
When Avery Hall saw the low shadow across the distant trees, he knew it was a wolf. Dogs waste movement. They lean, bounce, waddle, their hind legs ext…
Caleb Garling
Dec 9, 2020
A woman asks if the seat across from you is free. You’re sitting at the end of a long community table and note (to yourself) there are at least six fre…
Caleb Garling
Dec 9, 2020
One buck for 20 short stories by the best writers under 30. One buck for a history of Switzerland with a punch out game of scopa. One buck for twelve e…
Caleb Garling
Dec 9, 2020
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