It was supposed to be chess club, but instead, it was Gambler’s Anonymous, and that’s what you get in Moline. That’s what you get in church basements. It might be fried chicken, or it might be stale donuts, and I...
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Brett Biebel
Brett Biebel is the author of 48 Blitz (Split/Lip Press, 2020), a collection of flash fiction set in Nebraska. He has two forthcoming collections Winter Dance Party (Alternating Current, 2023) and Gridlock (Cornerstone, 2024). His reader's companion to Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon will be released by the University of Georgia Press in 2024.
Cow Town Carnival
Mom was pushing 80 past a semi on the wrong side of Madison, and it was one of them numbers with the cows in it, and you could see the faces peering out through the slats. She must have caught them on the periphery, or...