This issue brings you outstanding stories both short and long. As you read, notice how the opening sentence of each of these pieces hits you in the gut and draws you in. That’s hard to find and we’re lucky enough to have six of them. Be sure to check out the “must read twice” editor’s pick this issue by Eric Stoveken — it speaks to the kid in all of us. Kick up your feet and let the magic of Ari Collins, xTx, Joe Austin, Townsend Walker, Eric Stoveken, and Christine Utz take you on a journey.
Rocks
Ari Collins
You loved a stone.
He had chiseled features and rock-hard abs, but that’s not why you called him that. He was an immovable object and you weren’t irresistible. When you left him for me, he was the same as when you met.
As for me, I never claimed I was anything but a mountain.
Ari writes from Boston, where he runs a great daily zine at 55aday.com
Losing the Pee Argument
xTx
I never take baths. Baths cost too much time and water. You sit and fester like a chicken breast. Plus, I don’t have a good tub. Note to future self: Get the jacuzzi tub the size of a Mini Cooper, you cheap fuck. My tub is an embarrassment that I lock in the basement and feed through a small slot on the door.
