Phillip Sterling’s books include two full-length collections of poetry (And Then Snow, Mutual Shores), and five chapbook-length series of poems, the most recent of which, Short on Days, will be released from Main Street Rag in 2020. He is also the author of two collections of short fiction: In Which Brief Stories Are Told (Wayne State U Press 2011) and <em<Amateur Husbandry, a series of micro-fictions narrated by the domestic partner of a yellow horse (Mayapple 2019).
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I’m so attentive to the Sunday Times crossword that I don’t see the man in the pig costume approach. It’s not until he settles his hams beside me on the stoop that I take notice. Then, once I do, I do my best to ignore him. I mean, the costume is lame—a ratty full-bodied puke-colored piggish outfit, like something a… Read more →
When me and Rudy heard about the old Chancellor’s kidnapping tax we was like blitzkreiged. What a gruntworthy opp, we thought, the good ship lollypop bearing down on our pissass resources like a cargo hold of T-rexes and bloody hell. We’d do a quick snatch and jab, I says, sting like a butterfly, and make righteous the whole thing, do… Read more →
He says he’s the one that found it, though he wasn’t sure, from a walkaway, what it was at first. Not until he came right to it, until he knelt in the sand beside the bloat and sog that he realized. And even closer he wasn’t sure, at that time, what it was, what with his poor eyes, that… Read more →