Fast Machine

About this book

Fiction. The stories in FAST MACHINE come in three sizes: flash regular and too-long-for-journal-publication. Some were previously published. Some are brand-spanking new. The opening story "State Liquor " concerns a twenty-five-year-old woman and her eighteen-year-old husband trying to buy alcohol on their way to their strip mall jobs the afternoon of their wedding. In "Fistful " a pregnant teenager gets revenge on the young man who both impregnated and beat her before leaving town with another man. In "Habitrail " a woman returns home after the death of her father to find her husband in communication with the television set and a god he calls Chaos rather than her. There are over ninety stories in this collection. Repeated themes include: driving smoking teenagers drinking escape the Midwest masturbation self-loathing blood and loneliness.