David Osgood

David Osgood is a short story writer, residing in Fuquay Varina, North Carolina. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and is published in O:JA&L, Crack the Spine, Firewords, Treehouse, Glassworks, Eastern Iowa Review, Peregrine Journal, tiny journal, and won the Microfiction Honorable Mention Award from San Antonio Writer’s Guild. Visit him at www.davidsosgood.com.

UNFINISHED by David Osgood

My wife brushes her teeth in the shower and doesn’t spit, so the toothpaste foams around her mouth and drips down her chin onto her breasts. It reminds me of the two people I fear the most: my mother and my dentist. Tonya oversleeps again. She is starting to look like her mother. I burn my wife’s sprouted grains toast because I hate her new Vegan diet. She doesn’t notice because it is covered with half-ripe avocado. I crisp up a whole package of uncured maple bacon to give her something to complain about.  Tonya yells at her mom like…

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