J. L. Navarro

  the dead have come to visit. and not because they’re lonely. they’re never alone, never unaided. we’re the ones that find ourselves abando...

  Metal chairs hold up donor butts –big butts, little butts, puckered butts, clean butts, dirty butts, crusty butts, smooth butts, and donor...

  it came in through the backdoor of his mind. it didn’t bother knocking. he did not greet it with open arms or a friendly smile. it snuck p...

  He limps away from the cop cars lined side by side next to each other, headlights blazing at him. He walks across their path as if he were...

  musky female odor lingers in the air over arched and parted thighs. meat portals yawn; pink walls spit out bewildered targets, hunched ove...

Fizzing out into the world as if from a giant Pez dispenser, translucent lava light as air comes forth to conceive. Plunging into tender fle...

    Ghosts wandered around the house, seen through the corner of his eyes moving like blurs, neither hiding nor shy, all in a natural motion...

  While he sat at the park, baking in the sun, the old man felt the thread of his sinful nature coursing through him like a damnable snake. ...

  My visitor sits in the living room as I describe Hitler living in heaven. “He laughs as he walks down the path where buttercups grow along...

there was no doubt in his mind that he had been embedded in primordial sludge in long-forgotten time, had explored the infinitesimalness of ...

    My daughter (bless her heart) and her born-again family are waiting for the Rapture, waiting to be whisked into the clouds to sit at the...

Fl eabag The building was squat, wedged between two larger buildings. The hotel was not very big by big city standards. It was built for the...

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  Sydney had freckles sprinkled over a boyish face. He stood 6’5’’ and was a bit on the nerdy side. I knew him in junior high. Like most boy...