Dear Editors of the New York Times Crossword Puzzle, Please do not dismiss this as just another crank letter. I swear that everything that I relate to you here is…
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This report summarizes the findings of the focus group conducted at the Mount Sinai base camp following the new product rollout. Participants were asked their views in a casual atmosphere…
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Problem Solver, People Person, Attention to Detail At last, I am the everyone you’ve been hoping for, the perfect solution of absence and energy necessary for the job. I recognize…
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Mickey’s the thinnest I’ve ever seen him always been a skinny fucker but he’s been hitting it hard the past few months never eats he’s disappearing jeans hanging off him…
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A man plants himself to study a leaf and feels the wind is filling it with will, not the voice from the white noise. The man reads his intentions from…
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Three years after the breakup, the last thing I expected from Martin was spam mail. The spam wasn’t as obvious as a Nigerian prince who’d fallen on hard times and…
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If you truly wanted to unbury the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area circa 2018, it’s harder to imagine a more fitting fossil of the zeitgeist than this slogan…
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Edmund Garson awoke earlier than usual. He shuffled in a fog toward the bathroom to relieve his burning bladder. The mirrored medicine cabinet door above the sink hung ajar, moving…
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I have a request I’d like to make. Only message me if you are serious about helping with this, I don’t need messages telling me I’m crazy or a sicko.…
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“Don’t go too far,” the woman at the Diamond Door Health Spa said as I tied my running shoes. “These things happen fast.” Oh, but it’s a sparkling day with…
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No one looked my way as I emerged from under the purple overhang past the sentinel row of queen palms to the deck of the posh seaside supper club where…
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Eleanor’s husband is a carpenter who lives inside a window. Inside him is a trapped apprentice plumber. Being Eleanor is a job which she has just started, part of which…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayBLACKCACKLE: Letter to Meadowview Apartments Concerning the Recent ‘Poo-Prints’ Fine
Dear Meadowview Management, I write in response to your letter alleging negligence on my part by failing to pick up the droppings of my Samoyed dog, Sophie. I am sure…
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Janice needed to get off the phone. She needed to sit in silence. A minute before, I had told her about my plans to meet up with a friend, a…
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