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Andersen Prunty

My girlfriend sits on the couch and begs me to come and watch the Craig T. Nelson movie. "He plays a free spirit!" she calls, naked, eating a hamburger. Glops of mayonnaise tumble onto her breasts, slide down and drip from her nipples.

And I am somewhere very far away, fixing a television with a butter knife, slathering love upon a hateful world. "Just a minute!" I exclaim. "I have to tie my shoes!" I can't think of anything else to say.

The movie is a drag. It's five hours long and all of the dinner scenes are drawn out in painful detail. I go to sleep that night dreaming of Craig T. Nelson as a sexual shaman who gives my girlfriend lessons in love.

A recipient of The Harrow Award for Short Fiction, Andersen Prunty currently lives in Dayton, Ohio. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Space and Time, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens, The Edge, Black Ink Horror and The Bizarro Starter Kit (Blue), among others. Feel free to email him at andersenprunty@yahoo.com.