Why God Why 

Big Venerable 

In How the Moon Works, globally underappreciated author Matt Rowan, strives for literary greatness and fails heroically. 

How the Moon Works 

Dystopic Clams

Do Not Disturb

Dad Fights

Everyone who worked there enjoyed the work they did, for the most part. It was a graphics interface firm. They specialized in the interfacing of graphics, which usually was more than enough explanation for anyone outside the firm

The Shredder 

One is about the business of banking. The other is about a world full of hands. Need I say more? 

2 Stories

War in Peace

Hot People 

Let the words written on a notecard be your conscience. 

Don't Be Evil. 

Spots were dotting things in a peculiar way, all of a sudden. 

Spots 

“I can be creepy with just a ladder,” Ladder Man said to me on the other side of my second-story window.

Ladder Man 

A sudden blur, a momentary riot, bumping, clanging on the hood of my car. Then, just as quickly, the blur vanished out of view and back into the snow flurry that partially obscured my vision. 

Must Be Santa, Santa Claus 

The idea of it wasn’t quick to be gotten rid of. I’d been invited to a party, again.

Suffice it to say, after some internal debate, I attended.

A Party Already 

All of me is everywhere. It was like a willful explosion of me. One day: boom and it’s out of here and all over everywhere. I’m all over everywhere, and for that reason I’m feeling gross.

All of Me 

I found the heart pumping and spurting blood from its many severed veins. I was already running late for my important meeting. It seemed like fate. It seemed like fate because I was also completely unprepared for the meeting.


How Meat Could Be the Next Big Thing 

Company selling some brand of flake cereal saying every flake’s a meal. 

Company ad will have Danny DeVito and Bruce Campbell on a toboggan, while it’s snowing, waiting for a phone call from a very important boss. 

Advertising 

Foolish to forget. You did it at your own peril.

Teeth are evaluated clean when you go to the dentist. 

Your Audible Itinerary always alerted you it was time to go, when at its regular interval it was time to go.

Clean Teeth

Here’s the truth, as I understand it.

There is a place surrounded by the mountains that no one has ever returned from. There was a town there with living people at one point and there’s some reason to believe people are still alive and well there.

A Place I'd Like to Go 

They’re forcing us by video on the Big Screens to run fast again, “as fast as you can,” and if we choose not to it’s at the risk of great bodily harm and possible gruesome death. Very hard to ignore their order that way. 

Resurrection Mary and the Transmigration of Souls 

Space is a great time. It’s a lot of fun being an astronaut out in it. I especially enjoy the space tether that allows me to dangle out in the void of it all. I love having the job of retrieving space junk. 

Frontiersmen

The robots stood apart from us, some meters away, blandly surveying the unfolding scene with dull-glowing eyes.

Matt Rowan

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