HeyJaredThe Five and Dime
A sporadic establishment situated in the guts of Midwestland. Mainly stocking short fiction, essays, fanaticisms, and other inquiries into music, film, and whatever culture means. It's cheap, and always aims to please.
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Driving Strangers To Jail (opens the original)
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I drove a stranger to jail once because he begged me to, his sentence causing this sentence, compounded with my ignorance of his sense of time, how it has passed, where it has been kept, where to begin is with the facts: 25 years old, arm tattoos only, the right one darkened with various demons all dripping and swallowing blood, a Medusa below his elbow, and a single angel on his left arm, “DARK AND LIGHT” he says, sitting in a city park where he is hiding out, high on methamphetamine, sleepless
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