Winter 2005

 

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Corey Mesler


Flash Fiction
Winter 2006
~Character~

Poetry: 

Fall 2006
~Trying to Drag the Dead Tail to the Conclusion~


 

Character

Tom Meniscus, at first, did not realize that he had found the secret backstairs to the bedroom of his best friend, Rolland Hanson’s sister, Katelynn, who was both an invalid and a pink pants, so it was rumored, until he saw the cracked door and its buttery sliver of light and saw the upright, glimmering form of the young woman’s perfectly orbicular mammaries, clad only in diaphanous bedgown, nor did he know what he should do with this information except that he must keep it from his roommates, Jeff and Jerry Kinnoson, who were known around campus as party boys with forceful sexual proclivities, including the near-rape of a nubile, freshman bookbuster, according to some sources outside their fraternity, not to mention from Katelynn’s dipsomaniacal mother, Kathe, and her brutish father, Ron, Congressman Hester’s aide, which amounted to a real test of Tom Meniscus’s character, I’m telling you.

Copyright 2005 Corey Mesler






Fall 2005

Trying to Drag the Dead Tail to the Conclusion

The worm in the book represents the death
of the word. The vermiculate page
represents my life story crisping at the edges.
The darkness at the end, well, that’s
as far as I’ve gotten with what I’ve gotten so far.


copyright 2005 Corey Mesler
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