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We Are The World By Chris Rhatigan

The governments of the world have failed. The people are tired of their constant bickering, corruption, and inability to bring back the 1980s sitcom Webster.

The people riot for four years. This concludes in the dissolution of all government bodies and the creation of a single world government.

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Squishy Tendrils by Chris Rhatigan

Tyler ordered five shots of espresso.

Two weeks of drinking had somehow failed to erase the reality of final exams. He needed all the help he could get for what was bound to be a long night of gorging on information. Information that he would promptly yak up the next day, hopefully on paper.

They were taking forever with his drink so he went to take a slash. He was unzipping his fly when he noticed the checkerboard floor tiles in front of the urinal were rather shaky. Four of them, all uneven, grout between the tiles reduced to dust. He crouched, lifted each tile and stacked them in a corner. There was a piece of cardboard Continue reading Squishy Tendrils by Chris Rhatigan

It Wasn’t Slim Ricky by Chris Rhatigan

I rotated the glass and stared at the whisky. All three fingers stared back. Chewed over what lie I would feed her.

Drinking booze in the morning was shady, even for me. Then again, I never had a case like this. The body was, well, not a body. A bloody stump was more like it. Chunks of brain, organs, skull, plastered to the brick walls.

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A Sweet Deal by Chris Rhatigan

Crissy slid on a pair of pink fleece pants with Juicy scrawled across the ass and scampered out of my apartment. Soon Continue reading A Sweet Deal by Chris Rhatigan