Author: The Coalition

We Accept the Bad as separate from the uglyso we can believethe bad won’t breed into sin itself. We scrape the moldfrom our mostly okay fruit. Our retainers keepour crooked teeth from becoming fish-like. There are roachesin the […]

the pest sits in a pose rather suited to a creature crossing three sets of arms over his chest turning to me antennae bowing he says “Goddoes not hear the prayersof cockroaches” the west happy ending before resolution […]

1. ‘Blackjack’ in Hokkien2. A genre of Singaporean man, with connotations of gangsterism and the anti-social working-class, a figure both deplored and beloved

    I lost my key.     Actually, he ran away from me.     There had to be a glitch in the code. As immersive as this experience claimed to be, it was unsettling to feel my toes slowly submerged into the […]

Effective January 1st Thursday will be removed in favor of a second Friday. This Friday will be known as Thank God It’s Friday Friday after TGIF outbid Urban Outfitters for the naming rights to Friday 2.  We would […]

Sometimes       (After Jeffrey McDaniel) Sick of the secrets that slideunder window sills,knock on doors, the governmenthas outlawed eye contact. No syrupy smile from the paperdoll waitress who leavesthe menu bruised. Flings herselftowards the man in the backbooth, […]