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Hatchet

Hatchet

by | Dec 13, 2016 | M, Michael O'Keefe, Short Story

In the early 1980s, in the USSR, the monstrosity that was the Soviet state had already begun to die, but it hadn’t yet started its death rattle. Among the millions of dissidents, the KGB had imprisoned an angry, slightly talented poet of little note. Ivan Ratchikakhov...
The Cigar

The Cigar

by | Aug 11, 2016 | M, Michael O'Keefe, Short Story

July 12th, 1979 Bushwick JoeyButchie Bucciogrosso had listened to the ignorant and incessant whining of his fat partner since their tour began at 0800 hours. Since roll-call, Ernie theWhale Whelan had been ranting about the neighborhood, the people in it, and the...