Category Archives: Like Real Life

13. Singularity

Colin Rezo, return­ing from a busi­ness trip in India on a plane, may or may not have an exis­ten­tial freak-out after con­sid­er­ing his sex-tourist antics, then may or may not be mocked by Ger­mans. First appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of Trans­fer Mag­a­zine (#102).

12.09.2011 – 8:07:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Like Real Life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

9. New Sensation

A “real sci­en­tist” jumps ship once his sug­ges­tion that the earth could, at some point, be doomed by aster­oids goes viral, result­ing in wide­spread panic and first-times for every­thing. Pub­lished in the Fall 2011 issue of Inkwell.

12.09.2011 – 7:52:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Like Real Life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

10. William the Unready

The explo­sive story of William Pow­ers, a young man who’d rather hold his breath for eter­nity than face the tribu­la­tions of the world. And he suc­ceeds admirably for about six months. Pub­lished in the Spring 2010 issue of A Cap­pella Zoo.

07.24.2010 – 3:53:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Like Real Life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)