I read to laugh. Recently I had the exceptionally good fortune to read an advanced copy of Christopher Moore’s new novel, The Serpent of Venice, which made me laugh thirty-one times. The first Moore book I…
Devil’s Blood Hot Springs Canon City, CO Five Stars I felt my head fall forward, my eyes scrape open. My underpants lay lifeless around my ankles. My feet were buffered from the earth by cheap teal…
Pyschedellicatessian Denver, CO 5 Stars One thing I know: The chicken wing is a beautiful thing and ought to be consumed. One other thing I know: My girlfriend is a vegetarian and expects me to follow…
This is the nineteenth installment in Peter’s “Bum Logic” series, about his investigation into our inadvertent complicity in climate change, continued from his last post, What Color are You? “The word adventure has gotten overused. For me,…
This is the eighteenth installment in Peter’s “Bum Logic” series, about his investigation into our inadvertent complicity in climate change, continued from his last post, Texas Is Big. From an email sent by Eric Moll, a.k.a. Seagull,…
This is the seventeenth installment in Peter’s “Bum Logic” series, about his investigation into our inadvertent complicity in climate change, continued from his last post, Odd and Presumably Dangerous. Texas is big. If you can read English,…
This is the sixteenth installment in Peter’s “Bum Logic” series, about his investigation into our inadvertent complicity in climate change, continued from his last post, No Hot Dogs on a Dead Planet! I was feeling self-conscious and…
This is the fifteenth installment in Peter’s “Bum Logic” series, about his investigation into our inadvertent complicity in climate change, continued from his last post, Outlive the Bastards. The Lenzes, my mother’s side of the bloodline, are…
When Trop first decided to have podcasts, one of our ideas was to record readings of Trop writers’ short fiction. This was a pretty natural thought. We are, after all, a collective of fiction writers. We had some other…
This is the fourteenth installment in Peter’s “Bum Logic” series, about his investigation into our inadvertent complicity in climate change, continued from his last post, Excuse Me. As far as I could tell, things were looking up.…
This is the thirteenth installment in Peter’s “Bum Logic” series, about his investigation into our inadvertent complicity in climate change, continued from his last post, If This Sounds Apocalyptic, It Is. “Excuse me, Steven,” I said. The…
This is the twelfth installment in Peter’s “Bum Logic” series, about his investigation into our inadvertent complicity in climate change, continued from his last post, A Unique and Attractive Object. November 16: 25 signatures November 17:…
This is the eleventh installment in Peter’s “Bum Logic” series, about his investigation into our inadvertent complicity in climate change, continued from his last post, Organized and Goal-Driven. Mrs. Singler, a high school biology teacher of mine,…
This is the tenth installment in Peter’s “Bum Logic” series, about his investigation into our inadvertent complicity in climate change, continued from his last post, Time Conflated. After being denied an audience with the law offices of…
On October 20, 2012, Peter Nichols, Katie Browne, Adriana Widdoes, and Tom Dibblee allegedly ate dessert at Patina, a Los Angeles fine dining restaurant whose manager had a faintly European accent, despite his assurances that he…
This is the ninth installment in Peter’s “Bum Logic” series, about his investigation into our inadvertent complicity in climate change, continued from his last post, The Survivalist Meeting, Redux. Through no fault of my own, time conflated.…
This is the eighth installment in Peter’s “Bum Logic” series, about his investigation into our inadvertent complicity in climate change, continued from his last post, The Survivalist Meeting. … After that helping of sonic sap from…