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We take him to the doctor.What do you want on your face? said the nurse.Godzilla, he said. She painted his face like Godzilla.Rawr, he said.Hello, Godzilla, I said.They plugged his brain into a machine at the hospital. They called it “The Big Brain.” They filled his head up with redContinue Reading

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It is hard to tell now what is the absinthe and what is the bile. Matyáš and Tomáš contemplate the red doors.  Behind one red door is the incinerator. Behind the other red door is the future. Outside the laboratory altogether then is the third option, the option already insideContinue Reading

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Sundays we take Mikey to the zoo to fuck with the monkeys. We dress him like a monkey and lean him on the glass. You’ll never be as smart as me, says Mikey. No matter what you think, you’ll never think like I think, he says. The baboon sits onContinue Reading

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A small group of fishermen tend a dock. The fishermen know everything that goes on in our town. The fishermen sit around skinning fish, and dwelling on Benjamin Carson. It’s not right that a boy is born so awful, says the first fisherman, holding a knife in the eyes ofContinue Reading

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Audio release party episodes can be found on the Deep Overstock Fiction Podcast. Cover: Alligator Pond by Carrie Salazarr David Agyei–Yeboah – authoritative mother; Fiery tongueAJD – The Perils of ThornviewArnold B. Cabdriver – My Son with the Twitchy AssholeJohn Delaney – NewbornDesiree Ducharme – Bad Math and SpellingPat DuttContinue Reading

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Letter from the Editors: Dearest Readers, Here we are, in the present, which was once the future, but is just as soon to be the past. When we asked you to send us future pieces you wasted no time in giving predictions, and omens, robots, societies that have crumbled, scienceContinue Reading

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Letter from the Editors: Dearest Readers, Meow, woof, squeak! That’s just the animal way of saying wow we got a lot of great submissions. We could fill a zoo, but we wouldn’t because these stories shouldn’t be caged; they’re free-range! Inside this issue you’ll find cats, deer, ducks, monkeys, chipmunks,Continue Reading