Jon Fain

The Ones That Get Away by Jon Fain — Feign

Doesn't look like I'll get any noms this year...so might as well milk last year's Best of the Net one.

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Should have had a better nickname than ”Kemer.”

$3 Bleachers in ‘78, for the seats with backs, $2.50 further back on the concrete. Of course the higher up, more likely closer to the fights and drug deals that could get distracting….

The Energy Vampire keeps getting plugged in to continue sucking out our essence.

Big Hostovsky fan here.

Good point about the Senator Cowardice(s).

Aren’t the Amish big wind power people? To power wells and such. Next time I run into an Amish guy I’ll ask him.

A remembrance of my parents, who later in life decided to buy and attempt to run a country inn in Maine. Thanks to Matt at Atlantic Northeast for taking it on.

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Glad to see that some things never change in Cubicle World. One co-worker I had used to try to always do it; "Job security," he said.

I can’t be the only geezer having Gene Conley Arnold Early flashbacks.

They call themselves George Saunders.

My flash piece “Doomsday Rock (Three Minutes to Midnight)” has risen from the ashes, reprinted here. Inspired by my “helping” my grandfather as a kid way back when, when he built a fallout shelter on his farm. Many thanks to @bulbculture.bsky.social for the showcase!

US jobs only growing in healthcare…except for prisons, work camps and holding pen/Cracker Barrel combos hiring bigly.

Each grappler will do the palmed razor blade ear gash in homage. Kafabye!

Anything to shove "dribble" and "drabble" to the side is a side to get behind.

My small contribution to Atomic Bomb Literature, "Doomsday Rock (Three Minutes to Midnight)," will explode (again/reborn) tomorrow thanks to @bulbculture.bsky.social !

A pink stenciled graffiti that reads "Old dykes against tech Bros"

The words of the prophets were written on the subway walls

Tenement halls

"The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it." Jack Kirby - King of Comics A picture of Jack Kirby with a cigar in his mouth

Happy birthday to Jack Kirby.

New flash fiction in Reverie Magazine Issue #4, just out:
#FlashFiction #ShortStory

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I’ll just add to the chiming in with a “last year I had a story published that I had been sending out for over 20 years.” Not that I didn’t revise it, and add a secondary character at one point. After being published it was nominated for Best of the Net by the editor. So yeah, keep sending it out.

Running Wild Press Short Story Anthology, Volume 8 Running Wild Press Short Story Anthology, Volume 8 [Williams, Mark, Zenker, Gary, Lang, Lauren, Goldman, Ken, Davenport, Caroline Shannon, Czyz, Vincent, Devecchi, Elizabeth, Fain, Jon, Schiller, Joseph, White, Benjamin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Running Wild Press Short Story Anthology, Volume 8

A Hollywood location manager goes to a place he thought he'd never see again - his hometown - to deal with unpleasant memories and the complex needs of his estranged family.

My story "Uprooted," out today in this story collection.

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Warriors

Yeah my first thought seeing the guy. Spitting image.

“Indivisible,” a short memoir piece, is part of the new anthology from Universal Table and Wising Up Press, “Living Our Blessings: Aging, Mortality & Gratitude.”

The beginning of “Indivisible” is included in the LOOK INSIDE sample.

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This must be a seasonal thing. We have a group screeing back and forth for days. I think it's young one(s) recently left the nest, looking for parental support.

Some call it samizdat.

By “boonies” I assume you mean “far from the sea” so very impressed you took a shot at it.

This is what happens when editors take your shit seriously.

Like they serve it up on Santo Prosciutto! Mangia!

You can always tell the deep-thinking wrestlers from the furrowed brow.