Strip Ouija
“Strip Ouija?” She squints and one eye twitches. “Spirits, should we play strip Ouija?” The marker sits still in the no-man’s-land between our hands, but then slowly moves to cover the YES. “How do we play?” she asks. “We’ll each ask a question we disagree on and have these spirits so bored they’re hanging out here tell us the answer. The person who didn’t agree with the spirits has to remove one article of clothing. A serious piece, too, none of this ‘each earring counts’ bullshit.”
By S. Craig Renfroe, Jr.
Chicken Soup for the Sadomasochist
Donnie begs Alicia to heat the alligator clip over the flame of the stove burner before she pinches it onto his nipple. “This is not my idea of a date,” she says, bouncing the clip in her palm. “How about I just put a dry cleaner bag over your head and go home?” Face-up, naked, roped at two, four, eight and ten o’clock to the legs of the dining room table, Donnie is unconsciously wriggling one chaffed wrist. For a self-professed pain junkie, he has little control over aversion reactions.
By Tom Barlow.
Our Friends in the North
there’s no point in not being friends with someone if you want to be friends with them is a monthly readings night in Manchester. The next one on January 27 includes such luminaries as M.J. Hyland, Richard Milward, Steven Hall, Blake Butler (video reading) and Chris Killen. It also serves as the official launch of […]