Tag Archives: boys

JON FAIN: Regatta

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Some men have sculled from troubled boys, and are still sunken in their sorrow, trapped in turmoil. Immaturity laps up against the gunwales of machismo, as oars clack rippled distress toward distant shores. It’s not their fault! Women accept or reject them, by math and manner mysterious, to different ends.

Jon Fain lies low in Massachusetts. Besides 50 Word Stories, his stories have appeared this year in Blue Lake Review, Molecule, (mac)ro(mic), Potato Soup Journal, The Daily Drunk, and elsewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @jonsfain.

MARK FARLEY: Smaller Than You

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My friend is a foot taller than me. That makes him the leader.

“They taste like butter,” he says, showing me ants emerging from their nest. “Try one.”

I grasp an ant as it takes its first view of daylight. I watch it struggle, small, helpless and lost in indecision.

Mark Farley was raised in Africa. He now lives in Swindon, UK, dividing his time between web page development, opera singing, and blogging his random attempts at creative writing at mumbletoes.blogspot.co.uk.