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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)

Day 34: Patna

Our stay in Patna began with being barred from two hotels for being for­eign­ers, then hav­ing the police called to our room by the third hotel for absolutely no rea­son. Luck­ily, the com­mand­ing offi­cer search­ing through our pass­ports while his col­leagues sat with their rifles ready also knew he’d been called for no rea­son, and …

04.05.2011 – 5:01:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India II | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Holy Baba

The brandy we’d shared thirty min­utes prior with the Ital­ians and Lithuan­ian in the dark was sud­denly com­ing up strong. I sort of felt like I might taste bile soon. That, and also the fact that two holy men were approach­ing, seemed to indi­cate that Instant Karma! truly was going to get me. Until the holy …

03.15.2011 – 1:45:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India II | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)