Fiction – Page 8 – Lollipop Magazine

The New Guy’s Not Working Out – Fiction

January 1, 1999

It wasn’t like Willis to compromise, but the new guy was persuasive. They agreed to salvage the “Love” sign by changing it to “Love Jesus or Burn in Hell!”

The Culture Bunker – Raise High the Security Gates, Carpenters – Fiction

January 1, 1999

While it was displaced from the cover story to the Letters section, cut from 26,000 words to 150, it was the most important article I’ve ever had published.

Rage Against the Cubicle – Fiction

January 1, 1999

Remember, it’s all about one upsmanship when you’re dealing with hipsters. When they’re ironic, you’ve got to be “ironic.”

Down on the Farm – Part III – Fiction

January 1, 1999

“He’ll be the only one,” he said. Then he let out a laugh that sounded like coarse-grain sandpaper against a steel door. “You know how to swim, don’t you?”

The Culture Bunker – A Friendly Remainder – Fiction

November 1, 1998

The ‘Bama Sutra: Showing in sadly explicit detail hundreds of different techniques and positions for having sex with blood relatives or the merely toothless.

Translations: I was lost in translation, but now I’m found – Fiction

November 1, 1998

After being translated into French, back into English, into Portugese, and back again into English: “For effleure external of the adventure, I will admit…”

The Night Chicago Died – Fiction

November 1, 1998

Street level new music, which had previously been delightfully profane, had been rudely adopted by sacred operatives. Nothing could ever be the same.

L’Oser – Jean-Paul Bavard rappes avec Beck – Fiction

November 1, 1998

Superstar Singer/Songwriter Beck recently consented to an interview with the internationally-acclaimed Literature/Music/Fashion Critic Jean-Paul Bavard.

Immortal Combat – Fiction

November 1, 1998

I’m still not ready to get started on my great American novel, but the idea that I might be someday keeps me chaste from all sorts of pagan influences.

Forty in ’98 – Fiction

September 1, 1998

The function of institutions is to provide a comfortable context for perfect strangers from different walks of life to work together for a common purpose.