Captain Smash Adventures #101

So I’m sitting on the floor amidst all these half-​​unpacked boxes in my shitty motel room by the highway, the stripper I’ve been “running into” on a pretty regular basis idly picking a scab in my hand-​​me-​​down armchair.

We’re waiting for my recently-​​ex-​​wife to drop off the kid so I can feel shitty about myself for a weekend as he smirks and mutters his way through whatever activities I can come up with that don’t involve him staring at the computer while I get slowly drunk in… Read more »

Captain Smash Adventures #94

I’m having a lovely dinner with my wife for once, regaling her with tales of my exploits or whatever, and I notice her eyes have gone sort of dim and cloudy even though what I’m saying is real interesting, right? So I rather pointedly stop mid-​​sentence and give her a look like “I’m sorry, is my heroism not fascinating enough?” I mean seriously. She just twitches her head toward the bar and murmurs, “Who’s that?” in a way that is supposed to come off as nonchalant but… Read more »

Half Ones

Contemporary Silence

Sincerity versus Authenticity

Whither sustained effort

Better Souls

Messes Of Her Afternoon

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