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COLEMAN BIGELOW: Lunch at the Club

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We watched him come in his moth-eaten sweater and soiled khakis. A yellowing bucket hat framed his liver-spotted face. As he passed our table, we tried not to stare. After he stuffed his sail-bag into a nearby locker, Sylvie whispered: “Hard to believe he’s the richest man on the island.”

Coleman Bigelow is a Pushcart Prize- and Best MicroFiction-nominated author whose work has appeared recently in Bending Genres, Emerge Journal, Hyacinth Review, and The Dribble Drabble Review. His first chapbook “In Rare Cases and Other Unfortunate Circumstances” was published in May. Find more at: www.colemanbigelow.com or follow him on Twitter: @ColemanBigelow and Instagram: @cbigswrites.

COLEMAN BIGELOW: Vestal Version

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She thinks of her defiler and drinks.

A red solo cup she associates with the Flip game at the start and the blood in his bed at the end.

Better poisoned punch and salvation than spat out by the volcano of life.

She watches the sacred fire flicker and die.

Coleman Bigelow’s stories have appeared recently in Bright Flash Literary Review, Free Flash Fiction, The Dead Mule School, Every Day Fiction and Flash Fiction Magazine. He studied creative writing as an undergraduate at The University of Virginia and went on to study playwriting and screenwriting at The Actor’s Theatre of Louisville and the New School. He is at work on his first novel. See more at colemanbigelow.com.