Archive - Middle American Literature

My heritage I’m flippantly flushing down a backed up toilet as I browse subscription single origin coffee services

Because of the economy

Jul 10 •

June 2025

Anti-Social Construction

I didn’t have allergies as a child.

Jun 27 •

I live in the same house as philanthropic organ traffickers

The old woman who lives in the other side of the house where I rent a place moved a black mother and daughter into her apartment and then killed them.

Jun 12 •

People talk about a male loneliness epidemic, but I never meet any of these lonely men

Part three of an autofictional series

Jun 4 •

May 2025

Kafka is a soothing reference these days

Today I’m going to the office where I used to work, in a manner of speaking, to hand in my company laptop as large as a pontoon boat and a mouse still…

May 20 •

Therapeutic Dialogue Fiction by Caleb Caudell

Published on SUM FLUX • May 4

A Reasonable Proposal

When the man in the cubicle next to me talks on the phone to some muttonheaded superintendent to confirm the exact number of wire spools on an order…

May 1 •

April 2025

March 2025

Isolation, Part 2

On this bright cool morning, in which every moment dies alone like a feral cat in the woods, curled and ashamed in the hollow of a fallen tree, I can’t…

Mar 19 •

The Outhouse Within

For 8 hours a day I sit in a black rolling swiveling chair and dream about taking a dump.

Mar 11 •

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