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3 Childhood Friends Talking Hoops and Football

Previously published as: Ignorance, USA When Theodore “Teddy” Epps—freakishly wounded Gulf War veteran and mayor of Ignorance, Pop. 6587—declares his intention to run for the seat in the United States Congress currently occupied by twenty-term incumbent Jebediah Maxwell, the congressman’s wife sends retired FBI agent turned private investigator Pamela Nichols to their home district to engineer some means of discrediting him. Pam’s task is simple: Find a weakness she can exploit that will drive a wedge between a blindly ambitious and avaricious Teddy Epps and Ignorance’s ultra-...

Previously published as: Eat Like A Girl Twenty-eight-year-old Caitlin Ulmer has just graduated from Stanford with a PhD in Virology and after twenty-one years in academic harness is burned out. When she and her oddball posse of girlfriends visits a Buffalo Wild Wings at a San Jose shopping mall on the 4th of July to watch the annual Nathan’s Coney Island hot dog eating contest, she is both amazed and confused by what she witnesses there. Why is it that World Eating League phenom Tommy Filbert manages to ingest an astonishing seventy-six frankfurters in a mere ten minutes while the ...

Previously published as Whack Job. Meet twenty-one-year-old Jeff Land, winner of a national furniture design award in his third year at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. He plays drums and sings for the locally popular band, Whack Job, bears a striking resemblance to Kurt Cobain, and it would seem like the world should be his oyster. But alas, the timing of his birth would tend to suggest differently. Regardless of the wealth of talent he embodies, contemporary society has deemed him and his ilk overrepresented in the current job market. Maybe not in the world of Rock & Roll (...

Danny Olmstead has lived all his young life with the fact that his klansman father murdered a black man’s white wife in cold blood simply because she was riding in the same car with him. He was five-years-old at the time, living in Harrison, Arkansas, and he also witnessed his father’s own death that same night. Soon thereafter, his widowed mother moved them to Barstow on US Route 66 in California’s Mojave Desert. There, he was constantly exposed to the ideology of his white supremacist uncle, Willis, but throughout his childhood and early adolescence he somehow managed to resist ...