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Our Day Will Come

Sean T. Collins on One Battle After Another and Kneecap

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Everything is so stupid and so dangerous at once

Out here is where the monsters are

I would like to crawl out from under this

It is somehow October and so, very well, I will put on a hoodie. But I refuse to surrender just yet to the tyranny pants. This is New England after all and all we have is our pride. Some quick business up top. The date for my We Had It

A high heel, jammed into a human mouth, forever

Sean T. Collins on The Hunting Wives

I’m getting killed by a pretty good life

On Geese and Getting Killed

Life is a problem that can’t be solved

Remembering Kaleb Horton

It’s cozy in here and I hate it

Pop-up pop-art; Sex Change and the City; You Are in a Museum

You are in a museum

This story appears in my new book We Had It Coming – available now. You are in a museum They drove up to Salem to be somewhere different for a little while. Anywhere different.  Salem was usually a magical place for them but not because of the whole mess every October.

Sex Change and the City

Girl, Haunted by Georgia Mills

I hear the great beast calling

Everything is really fucking bleak right now buddy. The whole place is dark as I said the other day. It's almost too much to take. But one thing I promise you is that no matter how many of them it seems like there are – and there are quite

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The whole place is dark

The president gets to harm as many people as he wants defying whatever laws he pleases and our job is to be nice to him and make sure everyone agrees that he's cool. I'm not sure what you people don't understand about that. It&

Jeremy Saulnier’s American Carnage

Corey Atad on Blue Ruin, Green Room, Rebel Ridge and American violence

Parole Board Questions Dying Prisoner On 30-Year-Old Murder, Not His Health

For James Ware, an extremely ill Department of Correction prisoner, a final chance at release after medical parole denial By Eliza Dewey When the Massachusetts Department of Correction denied James Ware’s petition for medical parole in May, the commissioner who oversaw the proceeding acknowledged that the 52-year-old prisoner would

They’re kidnapping people off the street cartel-style

I've become accustomed to being lied to every day by now. About Israel and immigrants and trans people to name but a few. But there has been a superlative concentration of lies this past week. A novel density of lying. Something that feels massive. And not just from

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They’ll do anything they can to find something

On Monday the president said that domestic violence doesn't count as an actual crime. He was speaking at something called the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. which we have all of course heard of and been to. It looks like they've got a

A precious thing so easily lost

Somebody is throwing things out of a window at the White House. That’s what the post said. Sure enough there was also a video of the very thing described. That is the opening line to a Frank O’Hara poem I’m certain of it someone else said and

A hole in the wall

This piece appears in my forthcoming book We Had It Coming. They slaughtered a score of kids and a mess of their teachers an hour from here. This was all supposed to be happening somewhere else. Somewhere we could fret about it sure but not be made to weep deeply

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We have a world to win

I love writing very much but Being A Writer on the other hand sucks so bad dude. Every other part of the job I mean. Never more so than when you have a book coming out. (Which I do in case I haven't made that clear.) Having to

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Watching the very moments of an era’s extinction

Representing the American present

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I won't ask for nothing while I'm gone

I am so sick of being lied to every second of my life

I gotta believe we can't live like this forever

Talking 'Simplicity' with Mattie Lubchansky

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I stopped blaming other people for my problems

Talking 'Sloppy' with Rax King

You’ve had enough

I love getting a massage and the guy keeps going oh wow your back is really tight right here do you feel that? Yeah man that’s why I’m at the massage store in the first place. Probably be a lot more notable if someone wasn’t in rough

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Look at what we allow

This piece appears in my forthcoming book We Had It Coming. Here's a nice new plug for it from a smart and talented guy. Look at what we allow They said he threw his jacket. Kept saying that over and over. The man was agitated on the subway

Mama I’m Coming Home

Two weeks ago I was sitting in the very spot where I sit now crying my eyes out. Not exactly out of the ordinary for me but nevertheless. M. asked what was wrong and I said I was watching Ozzy sing Crazy Train. Did he die she said and I