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I tried to join a fraternity in college, back in ’07. Got real into the process too until I lost a couple nights’ sleep getting yelled at in some dude’s basement then failed a test and promptly quit the whole thing. But that ain’t what this is about. Before all that, when I was just […]

The Commandments (I)

“I’ve been in this game for years, it made me an animal. It’s rules to this shit, I wrote me a manual.” Notorious B.I.G., “Ten Crack Commandments” I. Little’s most vivid childhood memory is of his Pops sitting out back talking to a white man in a black suit. Little couldn’t have been more than […]

The Commandments (II)

II. Little dropped the nickname “Little” on March 10th, 1997. Little remembers the exact date because it was the day after Biggie died, a Monday, so there was still this sort of nervous tension around school between classes in the hallways at South Pines Middle; the perpetual whispered questions floating through the air like apparitions: […]

The Commandments (III)

III. Jeff met Carlos through Slim about a month after he got kicked out of school. By that point, Jeff’s mom was mouthing off daily about him not pulling his own weight, how he didn’t have no excuse to not be bringing in something now that he wasn’t in school. Standing in the kitchen screaming […]

The Commandments (IV)

IV. Things went back to normal for a little while after Briggs got popped. Jeff thought about that a lot in the following years, how things always go back to normal, how it was nearly impossible to keep anything off-kilt forever. How not even death could disrupt the unending flow of time. Within days, that […]

The Commandments (V)

V. Ironically, after Jeff shot and killed his own mother, life got a lot simpler. For a little while at least. By this time, Jeff had reached his full height of six-four. Lifting weights on the bench in his living room had also gained him some of the muscle mass that would quickly distinguish him […]

Jaded

A writer loses his grip on reality when he falls in love with a character from his successful action-novel series.

Stew

The front door swings open slowly, her heels clicking against the tile as she steps inside. I face her and the smile on her face turns my blood cold. Behind her head the dark night sky is suddenly lit up by a crack of lightning, casting a shadow across her face so that—for just a […]

From Ash

Setting the blunt down on the coffee table, Jerome moves his guitar to the side and opens the short cabinet next to the living room couch, the one he’s barely looked at over the past year. He doesn’t know why he gets the inclination right then, he just does, a curiosity overtaking him like the […]