6.10 / Crime Issue

In these stories, you’ll find no midnight epiphanies in a parking lot about a relationship gone sour. Instead, you’ll encounter revenge, rape, murder gone wrong, power-positioning between rival gangs, sorry-ass selfish acts committed without regard for others and occasionally, like a flower finding its color in a parched landscape, compassion and hope.

PART ONE:  Appetizer I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee

Bound and whimpering, the girl sat on a dirt floor pressed into the corner of the garage. Bruises fudged her hide while scraped knees and elbows jutted from her ripped blue and white T-shirt and boy-cut panties the wrong shade of brown.

The chains on the Ranger quiet and go silent altogether when he pulls up behind the wreck.

1. West didn’t join the Aryans to protect himself from the Blacks.  Shit, he grew up in Detroit–black food, black music, black friends.  He never had a problem with the Blacks.  He joined the Aryans to protect himself from the Whites.  No fence sitting motherfuckers up in here.  Max security.

DAY #3 He just won’t shut up. I’ve been pistol-whipping the living shit out of him for the past ten minutes and he still won’t stop.

Coq au Vin 1 onion 2 carrots 2 stalks celery 6 whole peppercorns 2 cloves garlic, pureed 1 sprig parsley 1 bay leaf ¼ tsp thyme 3 bottles Burgundy (two inexpensive, one not) 2 Tbsp white arsenic (from the hardware store) 2 Tbsp sugar 1 whole chicken Salt and pepper 2 Tbsp olive oil 4

Rocket the fastball, Lead the love letter, Drive band the low friction. Pump action the plated Soft point, the pointed Soft point. Lubricate the Wived malediction. Boat tail the form drag. Spray the subject. Penetrate the target.

I took the Barrett sub-machine gun to the garage, placed it on the truck seat, then covered the body with a sheet of warped plywood and scraps of lumber.