Marc Tweed

Marc Tweed’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in NOON Annual, New World Writing, The Normal School, Juked, XRAY, Cleaver Magazine, and more. Marc is completing a collection of short stories tentatively titled Fever Dreamboat. He lives in North Seattle, USA and also creates paintings, drawings, and music. www.marctweed.com

SIMON & SCHUSTER by Marc Tweed

Bill Gunderson was more than a coworker to me, in fact I’d gone kayaking with Bill maybe three weeks before they chucked his severed head off the 29th floor of the Pemberton Building. He was our top seller the year before that ordeal, three out of four quarters. The guy was a data security sales machine. It was a windy evening this happened. I remember his head making a sound like an empty coconut when it hit the concrete and bounced twenty feet in the air, coming to rest directly in front of my girlfriend, Veraldine, whose exquisite face elongated…

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