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ZiN Daily

Nov 7, 2022

John Brantingham: Easy Or Hard

Image: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/wT6F0SWV9fs) 13.08.2022. Crows That Weep for Peanuts, 1977 In the spring, Wanda likes to sit with Carl on the porch after dinner with a handful of peanuts that they toss to the crows who know to meet them there. Wanda, who has buried one husband, is preparing herself to bury this one too, and she’s not sure exactly what Carl is doing to prepare. The way he talks since the diagnosis, she thinks maybe he’s pretending that

ZiN Daily

Oct 17, 2022

Jim Meirose: Why us? Why me?

Image: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/j7wPFNAXdio) 03.07.2022. Seeding His Furrow-Field Farmer’s up and down hand-seeding his under-sunned loamy-black furrow-rows fast, but not too so, up, down, down, up, ‘gainy ‘n again; half-day’s gone, good, until. Wha’? Oh—yes, came gripholdy stranglefood von gripholdy stranglefuel! Poppylock, zoot! Uck. Hey there ‘iend. Hey. What? Your down home zero sum patriotical waitstaff compels you, is what. Djinn-strangle Morrey

ZiN Daily

Oct 3, 2022

Mike Lee: Subsumed

Images: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/liuWJ2EHDnY) 03.07.2022. Tartan Week For her thirteenth birthday, Kat spent a weekend with Aunt Betty Lou and Uncle Howard in Bellaire, at their ranch-style home with the front yard of pines blanketing the ground with needles, the sweet smell of honeysuckle growing up the brick façade. This time, Kat had a bed to herself since her cousin named Betty, like Kat’s big sister, was away at SMU. So Kat went through Betty’s c

ZiN Daily

Sep 26, 2022

William Falo: Nothing To Lose

Image: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/rlSg_Up0O8g) 24.09.2022. The Girl from Moldova I wasn’t a criminal, but the war changed everyone. Angry and poor, I agreed to help take orphaned dogs from the war zone out of Ukraine because it paid a lot of money, and nobody would get hurt, but I was wrong. Everything went as planned until I approached a ferry, and a jet flew so low it shook the battered truck and sent vibrations through my hands that spread through m

ZiN Daily

Sep 19, 2022

Timothy Resau: What Is It?

Image: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/epZp5y3wqcA) 18.06.2022. MONDAY'S MOTHER Monday's mother, whose peering sentences no one wishes to hear, finds you pondering your work-a-day existence, knowing that this is not the true matter at hand, knowing, farther, there should be a more advanced way ... a more advanced direction ... a greater reward, let's say, for someone with so much intelligence as you — but still you remain, stupor-eyed and bold, having been

ZiN Daily

Aug 8, 2022

Paul Perilli: Vacation Time

Image: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/L54zc2NEkTQ) 01.05.2022. Vacation Time I'll start with the good news. The Myers Hotel found my passport. The bad news is everything that happened after that. I didn't realize it was missing until we were on the train closing in on Bratislava. It wasn't the first time I’d misplaced it on an international trip, but Lucy intended to make sure it was the last. "From now on I'm holding on to yours too," she said. First thing

ZiN Daily

Aug 1, 2022

Tom Gumbert: No One Cares

Image: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/wPbbShdlEWI) 01.05.2022. The Lonely Boy The boy was afraid, always afraid. Afraid of big things like rogue asteroids, and small things like microscopic viruses. His dreams were filled with feral camels, naked mole rats and fog that slithers, slithering into his dream, into his room and around his throat. He masked his fear, not with anger or false bravado like the bullies who picked on him at recess, but with shyness; d

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