November 2026
5artifacts
Notice of Violation
A suburban rocker at war with his homeowners association over his garage band, flame decals, and "decorative" fireworks, and he frames every citation as a trophy.
Blue Is Tuesday
Each day of the week arrives as a color, and each color is a warm room you can stay in.
Bidet All Night
A man in a silk robe lights the good candle, dims the lights, and tries to seduce his partner with a guided tour of his two-thousand-dollar bidet, and the key change lands on water-pressure setting…
Owed Me Since September
He lent a friend forty dollars for a broken-down pickup, and by the first snow he's watching that friend flash twenties at the fish fry and feed the jukebox.
Ring the Bell at Five
The boardroom is a steel cage and the champ wants every night we have, but the crew tags each other in, and at five o'clock all of us walk out of the ring alive.