‘Dostoevsky Has a Seizure Pitching Headlines to the Russian Messenger’ by Jon Doughboy

Dostoevsky Has a Seizure Pitching Headlines to the Russian Messenger

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Nihilist Finds God After Reading the Collected Works of Russia’s Greatest Novelist and kisses the earth, the great, beautiful, humble Russian earth and he picks up a handful of this earth and uses it not to create some Crystal Palace lorded over by Western Intellectuals with no understanding of the Russian soul or of Russia’s role leading the world forward with the true faith, none of that decadent Catholicism or Protestant trash or Jesuitical conspiracies but united under a true monarch, under the truest monarch of them all our Savior, can you spare a few roubles, Anna, where are you, I’m feeling lucky, oh, the tension, Anna, do you feel it? The joy, the demons cast out, we are forgiven—

JON DOUGHBOY

Jon Doughboy runs the Institute for Regressive Economic Redistribution. His works have been published in Fjords Review, Juxtaprose, Beyond Words, and Narrative. His self-help manual ‘You Too Can Scam Aspiring Writers’ is coming out next fall with PANK. Preorders available now @doughboywrites

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