"So he dumped in the flour, yeast, water, & barley & vomited. Straight into the bagel mixer. Dribble leaking down his apron to the floor. He considered his options. He couldn’t afford to toss a hundred bagels. So what'd he do? He folded it in." Ezra Solway mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Across the street somebody walked back and forth along the chain-link fence behind the school as if a boy might be caught there like a ball in the weeds. At first, he was only late getting home. Then he was missing." @brandonmcneice.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Although she had no experience to compare it to, she was both surprised and relieved that her brother’s apartment was cleaner than she assumed a recent suicide’s apartment might be." - James Hippie mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"We didn’t know if his playground rules were to count to 10, 20, or 100. We were afraid to get it wrong." - Mary Magdalen mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Will they go home to find their wives in their beds with plumbers? Will they take their guns to end it all or humble themselves & start planting trees? Will they get their hands dirty in the garden or start cleaning the pipes?" - Patricia Nagy Gyuris mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"And then I found Chad, or Clive. He’d gotten tired of his routines in the app world—the arranging gangbangs and then collecting testimonials kind of thing. He was ready for something different, and like I said, it’d been a good run." - Nora Rawn mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"He couldn’t help but clean his teeth at his desk with a straightened paperclip, not even realizing he was doing it, soothed by the addictive scraping, unaware of those watching. A nickname that stuck for years, the grooves still in his enamel." - MC Schmidt mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"When you told your current girlfriend, the girl you’re trying to turn into your third ex, that you have a traumatic brain injury, she said, 'I hate football. It’s stupid and toxic and anti-feminist.'" - Kelly Murashige mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"I lined up those Precious Moments like killers facing a firing squad. I aimed my Hellcat 8mm straight at their soulful saucer eyes & blasted their innocence into a pile of porcelain, shattered their skulls the way they had shattered mine." - Jill Williamson mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"I whispered to her, 'You’re like a dead catbird to me.' It just came out. I’m out of control sometimes. But I did love a dead catbird once. When something’s dead and you feel an ache for it, that’s love." - Steve Lambert mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"Cleaning, fillings, whitening—Heck! Even crowns, bridges, and implants! One last good fuck at corporate with a three-thousand-dollar copay and a two-week sick leave." - Thao Vu mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"To deliver Russia’s most advanced submarine to America, Captain Zardoz beats the political officer into a stupor with a dozen kicks to the face, stashes the rat bastard in the bathroom, & keeps the crew of 160 away with an out-of-order sign." - Jon Wesick mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"Call me Gerry the Cancer. All I need to do is get completely meth’d up and have someone film me screaming in a parking lot with an enormous jar of figs under my arm, and a sore asshole. Comment section loot here I come!" @frank212.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/moan...

"I didn’t want to change time. I just wanted to tickle it. It didn’t take much: Pick a putridity. Pick a time. And back it goes." - Patrick Carella mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Dave is chiseled by the gods. Hotter than the fires of hell. He’s golden from head to toe, from the shaggy waves of his wolf cut to the sun-licked glow of his skin, the same color as the fried chicken he was raised on." - Erin Holberg mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"They don’t call it an IQ test but they don’t call anything what it is since the Research came out. Except for Taco Bell." - Stewart Rudy mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Others have come here. Sacrifices have been made. The suffering is ancient & it gets inside your nerves. But at least when you hear the screaming, you know where it’s coming from." - Robert Parillo mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"Fish swims further up, past the end of Man’s leg, towards the source of all unhappiness, and opens its mouth. For a long, eternal second, neither Man nor Fish moves. A shiver races up Man’s spine. Endless possibilities in his head." @anniezhsun.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"I was trying to get an erection, but in a stranger’s chilly bathroom with floor-to-ceiling mirrors and the pressure to perform, the odds were against me." - Daniel Krieger mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"The sun crests over him. I watch the brown-gray body as it shifts tall grass. The raised head. Dad’s on the porch with a gun in his pocket and whiskey riding his breath. He tells me to go on already—the field is safe." - Haley Souders mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Mrs. Barnes said big cats like tigers and lions are much stronger than humans. This means tigers can eat mums." - Ya Lan Chang @yalanchang.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"The next thing I knew, me, Hunter S. Thompson, & the apparitions he’d conjured; terrible, naked creatures doubled over the property’s back forty, relieving themselves of their lunches and who knows what else against a perfect Colorado sky." - Mike Evans mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"We shouldn’t judge these absent strangers but at the same time we have to wonder if what set them off is catching, if someday soon, one of us will break a glass or forget to buy milk & that will lead to the splicing of our own angry hearts." @bsherm36.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"I was just a lonely man in love with the woman from an advertising poster. And that night… yes, that incredible night, I was going to love her forever." - MAXIMILIANO GUZMÁN mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Look, have you seen the Rock? I’m friends with Sean Connery. Yes, James Bond. You don’t want to mess with me. -Dracula" - Shawn Scott Smith @luckycreature.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"They say politics is a circus. I say life’s a circus. Because I work in a circus." - Dmitriy Kogan mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"I came across a job posting for a water slide tester at a park called HydroTopia. In my application, I said I had balls the weight of osmium & a passion for water. They brought me in for an interview that same day." - Josh Teal mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

“'Your mistake,' Margie said, holding the sawed-off shotgun, 'was confusing my kindness with weakness.'" @frank_byrns mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"I will always remember that fat junkie sitting in my rocking chair, strumming away, an urgent blank-faced zombie chant: Kill them all, kill them all / Everyone must suffer now / Everyone must pay." - Whitney R Holp mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"I wasn’t planning to get a dog. At twenty-two and living thousands of miles from the Midwest where I grew up, I was still figuring out how I would even keep myself alive. But one day, I saw Cruso." @alexzoubine.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...