Lollipop Magazine

These are the Good Old Days – Fiction

October 1, 1996

Gen X’ers and Gen Y’ers should quit believing all that stuff about how great it was back then, and start enjoying life, because things are a lot better now.

Prelude to a Lick – The Editor’s Rant – Column

September 1, 1996

We here at Lollipop are getting in touch with our inner scenesterness, and we’ve started a second magazine called Lollipop Freezine. Quite a novel name, eh?

Get Rich Quick – Fiction

September 1, 1996

The car was around the corner, we’d left the engine running. She eased it out and drove away, we pulled the stockings off our heads and lit up cigarettes.

Dear Editor – Fiction

June 1, 1996

I am a small fat troll of an old lady who enjoys waddling down subway platforms in front of educated, good-looking, productive, and adjective-obsessed young men.

Pawtucket 11 p.m. – Fiction

May 1, 1996

Hot summer night, sticky and treacherous. Red night. Night of sirens and fear. We were sitting on the balcony of my apartment in Pawtucket, three of us.

Tailgating is Not a Family Value – Fiction

April 1, 1996

It was too hot… Even for a motorcycle… Too hot to think… Too hot to breathe…

Cops 1996 – Ficition

March 1, 1996

“Son, you’re behind the wheel of a V-8 powered, fully-loaded, American built Ford Crown Victoria automobile. T’ain’t no ‘scuse for going 55. No ‘scuse at all.”

Prostitute – Fiction

September 1, 1995

I just found out my friend Gloria is a prostitute. She’s an energetic, beautiful 21-year-old with a quick wit and bubbling laugh. And a night job.