Quinn Adikes

Quinn Adikes’ fiction has appeared in Lit Hub, Five Points, Epiphany, Fiction International, The Southampton Review, Shenandoah, and other journals. He is the recipient of the Joseph Kelly Prize for Writing and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at the Gotham Writers Workshop. He is finishing a novel. You can find out more about him at www.quinnadikes.me.

WE FOUND AN ENORMOUS HOLE by Quinn Adikes

We happened upon the enormous hole by chance. It was a tremendous hole. The largest I have ever found. Perhaps twenty feet in diameter and located in some woods along the Southern State Parkway. The walls of the hole were perfectly flat and thus of unnatural design, although I cannot say who would have dug such a thing. I could not see to the bottom. I threw a rock in and listened to it bounce against the walls, and listened to the sound grow fainter and fainter and eventually vanish altogether. Of course I urinated in the hole. My need…

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