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Beastly Nightware

Herbert quit his job at the National Bank to start his own business creating and selling pajamas for pachyderms. He purchased an industrial sewing machine and set up shop in his basement. Each species had its preferences, and it wasn't long before Herbert fabricated the orders accordingly: elephants enjoyed silk, rhinos couldn't get enough made from cotton, and hippos loved flannel. But the pajamas most popular among all the pachyderms, and made Herbert's name synonymous with beastly nightwear, are the hoofy pajamas, especially the ones with the trapdoor in back, and checkered with baby humans in various poses at play.

Coprolite

I once dated a woman who played a murderer in a made-for-TV movie. I heard she and her third husband own a souvenir shop, selling petrified dinosaur turds for $5. I fall asleep nightly listening to Tommy Dorsey's I'll Never Smile Again, on repeat. It snows each night in my dreams. I trudge through drifts on stilts—my head brushing against ice-covered branches. I crunch my way toward church-bell tintinnabulations I mistake for my former lover's wheezy snores. When I wake, I find the naked lady tattooed on my right arm has slid over to smell the rose on my left.

Joshua Michael Stewart lives in Massachusetts. His poetry titles are Break Every String, The Bastard Children of Dharma Bums, and Love Something. His work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Salamander, Brilliant Corners, 100-Word Story, New Flash Fiction Review, etc.

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An international online magazine that publishes Surrealist poetry in English. Issue Fifteen JOSHUA MICHAEL STEWART Beastly Nightware Herbert quit his job at the National Bank to start his own business creating and selling pajamas for pachyderms. He purchased an industrial sewing machine and set up shop in his basement. Each species had its preferences, and it wasn't long before Herbert fabricated the orders accordingly: elephants enjoyed silk, rhinos couldn't get enough made from cotton, and hippos loved flannel. But the pajamas most popular among all the pachyderms, and made Herbert's name synonymous with beastly nightwear, are the hoofy pajamas, especially the ones with the trapdoor in back, and checkered with baby humans in various poses at play. Coprolite I once dated a woman who played a murderer in a made-for-TV movie. I heard she and her third husband own a souvenir shop, selling petrified dinosaur turds for $5. I fall asleep nightly listening to Tommy Dorsey's I'll Never Smile Again, on repeat. It snows each night in my dreams. I trudge through drifts on stilts—my head brushing against ice-covered branches. I crunch my way toward church-bell tintinnabulations I mistake for my former lover's wheezy snores. When I wake, I find the naked lady tattooed on my right arm has slid over to smell the rose on my left. Joshua Michael Stewart lives in Massachusetts. His poetry titles are Break Every String, The Bastard Children of Dharma Bums, and Love Something. His work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Salamander, Brilliant Corners, 100-Word Story, New Flash Fiction Review, etc.
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