January 9, 2023 · Fiction
He was angry. He was scared of her. He was scared of the post office. Everything is on accident or everything is on purpose or everything is both.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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January 4, 2023 · Fiction
What they couldn’t see: his heart pumping arterial and venial dilated with rage at being short but filled with fearless venom.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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January 2, 2023 · Fiction
We were always competing for not-worst drunk. But we were also secretly competing for worst drunk. So both of us always won. And lost.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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December 30, 2022 · Fiction
If I could only stay kind and beautiful, I, too, could survive on the happiness contained in a single shot of frat boy whiskey. But I always had trouble with kindness.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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December 28, 2022 · Fiction
“They don’t feel anything, do they?” she says. He smiles at her. His smile says, who cares if they do.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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December 26, 2022 · Fiction
He knows without a shadow of a doubt that he cannot die. It makes him reckless in a way everyone loves, except for Steve-O.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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December 23, 2022 · Fiction
Mosi is Sprite, Banji is Coca Cola. Whoever loses, does the rounds to check for hippos that might have strayed too far.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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December 19, 2022 · Fiction
The music lifted like a cosmic prayer. Then the collective scream: the squawk, the beef and bleat of the slaughter, a rumbling dusk arcing across the auditorium.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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December 16, 2022 · Fiction
I’m about to reverse out when I think–drunk kid. In my car. And I’m drunk. Maybe a bad idea.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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December 14, 2022 · Fiction
But there are two kinds of shame: the kind that you cannot speak the words to, even in your head, and the kind you can’t stop talking about. I told the story for years.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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