Lollipop Magazine

Cheap Speech – Fiction

July 1, 1995

Already the chimps are bearing their capped teeth, thumping their imported-cotton chests, and throwing dirt, lots of dirt, into the air.

All Hail The Quintessential White Trash Couple – Fiction

June 1, 1995

BIG HAIR has to pick up her boyfriend because he doesn’t have a car. She has to pay for his drinks because he doesn’t have a job. God he’s hot!

The Bed – Fiction

May 1, 1995

She gave him a look that had him pointing north. She pulled him down to the ground. “We will call this laying down together, and this place we will call a bed.”

Square Dance Lessons – Fiction

April 1, 1995

Whoa, ding-dong, three o’clock, I’m going to be late for my square dance seminar at the city college. Thank you all, but I’ll have to come back some other day.

The Diamond Rams Club – Fiction

February 1, 1995

“If you’re ever in trouble, call that number,” he said. With his Spanish, it came out as “If you turn left at the chicken babies, then I wanted to dance.”