Andy Futuro's Blog: Excerpts, page 2
August 15, 2025
Rat Boy Summer 2
Turned out Jacques was wrong when he said that only rats could live in the city. Because even the rats were having a hard time. The rain came and came — a whole fucking twenty-four hours straight. Nothing for months. And then bam, a whole fucking day of rain.
From time to time we got service. The internet came back and we'd get glimpses of news or we'd get texts or we'd get the weather report and we'd see that a foot of rain had fallen in one day.
Twelve fucking inches, Jacques said. Twelve inches...
August 8, 2025
Rat Boy Summer 1
For weeks there was no rain. Just an unbelievable pressure in the air. Hot, sweaty, sweltering, suffocating air. So wet and so heavy and so hot it was impossible to breathe. You could see the clouds building on the horizon. Big white cumulus pillars. Every day we expected them to break. To darken, swell, rip, and piss down the rain.
And it didn't happen.
All the trees in the city died. The grass brown and then white like a carpet of fishbones. The parks dried and cracked, the city couldn’t spend t...
August 1, 2025
Rooting for the Apocalypse - The Wedding (3)
Rooting for the Apocalypse began as series of vignettes, loosely based on my life and the lives of my fellow dirtbags living in Philadelphia. The nameless dirtbag serves as a protagonist, though he never learns anything, with some repeat characters like Zak and Athena. I wanted to combine the vignettes into a picaresque novel, but ultimately decided to spin it out into the novella bearing the title Rooting for the Apocalypse.
This is the second of two bonus stories, the fi...
July 31, 2025
Hunger Mountain Taxi
The following is my entry into the 7th Flash-Style Flash Fiction Battle. For more details, check it out below:
Flash-Style Flash Fiction Battle 7th Flash-Style Flash Fiction BattleGreetings! Greetings! Greetings! Fellow Word Worms and Pulse Punchers… Listen now5 days ago · 40 likes · 46 comments · ARC, Sandolore Sykes, M.P. Fitzgerald, and Andy FuturoPrompt: 20 years ago. In a taxi. The driver was telling you about aliens in his cab. back to today, same cab, same driver
You're mighty luck...
July 25, 2025
Rooting for the Apocalypse - The Wedding (2)
Rooting for the Apocalypse began as series of vignettes, loosely based on my life and the lives of my fellow dirtbags living in Philadelphia. The nameless dirtbag serves as a protagonist, though he never learns anything, with some repeat characters like Zak and Athena. I wanted to combine the vignettes into a picaresque novel, but ultimately decided to spin it out into the novella bearing the title Rooting for the Apocalypse.
This is the second of two bonus stories, the fi...
July 24, 2025
My Flesh Is Not My Own
I’ve been updating the Substack images for No Dogs in Philly: A Cyberpunk Horror Noir and started having fun putting them together with some of my ambient tracks. The result is this — an experimental audiovisual piece that I hope instills a sense of eerie foreboding.
If you like it and want more, you can read the whole novel on Substack for free or get the free eBook from the link below. No Dogs in Philly is also available in paperback at most online retailers.
July 22, 2025
When and Where You Go
This is track 9 from the album 1333, which released May 9, what seems like years ago. The whole album is short, punchy, colorful EDM tracks that always find a way to go in a fresh direction.
Buy or stream 1333 at the links below:
(Also available on Tidal, Deezer, Pandora, and other sites. I just don’t have the links yet)
And thanks to everyone who already picked it up 🙏.
Just so you know…The absolute best way to support me is to become a paid subscriber....
July 18, 2025
Rooting for the Apocalypse - The Wedding (1)
Rooting for the Apocalypse began as series of vignettes, loosely based on my life and the lives of my fellow dirtbags living in Philadelphia. The nameless dirtbag serves as a protagonist, though he never learns anything, with some repeat characters like Zak and Athena. I wanted to combine the vignettes into a picaresque novel, but ultimately decided to spin it out into the novella bearing the title Rooting for the Apocalypse.
This is the second of two bonus stories, the fi...
July 15, 2025
One Day Now
This is track 8 from the album 1333, which released May 9, what seems like years ago. The whole album is short, punchy, colorful EDM tracks that always find a way to go in a fresh direction.
Buy or stream 1333 at the links below:
(Also available on Tidal, Deezer, Pandora, and other sites. I just don’t have the links yet)
And thanks to everyone who already picked it up 🙏.
Just so you know…The absolute best way to support me is to become a paid subscriber....
July 11, 2025
Dwayne
Dwayne had a mullet and a rat tail and a dumb accent and a chipped front tooth and a scrunched-up face full of freckles. He said the leather bag he brought to school was his dad's and that his dad had been a marine who'd been killed in the war and that it was better than a backpack. But it wasn't a backpack, and he didn't even have a trapper keeper, and all his books were used.
We knew our mission. We had to destroy him.
Second period, Preston got Dwayne on the floor and pinned his chest with his ...
