Excerpt from the forthcoming compendium The Penult by Colin Gee
Category: Fiction
‘Of the Blue Evening’ by Mehreen Ahmed
‘What more proof do you need? These are mine, my signature pickles, and my straws.’
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‘Proud Paleo Perfect People’ by Mark Blickley
‘Better dead than bread! Better dead than bread!’
FROM THE AMERICAN CHEESE SPECIAL: EXCERPTS FROM ‘PRINCESS VELVEETA’ by Mark Blickley
I’ll pull double duty and gladly split time between your (points to Basil) cave and his (points to Herb).
FROM THE AMERICAN CHEESE SPECIAL: ‘The Processed Cheese We Are’ by Bruce Reisner
A ‘stunt’ they called it at the hospital. Offended. Does no one teach conceptual art anymore?
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‘Lates X’ by Captain B
Through certain portals, the Milky Way’s Earth is much more easily accessed and vice versa and beyond.
FROM THE AMERICAN CHEESE SPECIAL: ‘Slices’ by Will Penn
It is tempting to mythologise the man who oscillates from ‘Sometimes I think we went too far’ to ‘Damn it, we eat it in our own home!’ A reluctant god, perhaps?
FROM THE AMERICAN CHEESE SPECIAL: ‘AMERICAN CHEESE GIRL’ by Dia VanGunten
America, with her plastic-wrapped decades, is roaring, discoing, free-loving and punking.
‘Pete and Repete’ by Raddy
The lady said Okay then boys but by that time Repete had already said, No ma’am.
FROM THE AMERICAN CHEESE SPECIAL: ‘Good cheese is like a fine wine’ by JENX
We all have guilty pleasures, methinks. Take cheesy music, for example.