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We get that he acted like a dick, Mark, but come on, man! He’s the Commander-in-Chief for God’s sake! Anyways, we heard about the suspension, so here are a few yarns to keep you occupied. Next time, remember: don’t ever rely on seven-second delays. Unlike these stories, those will always let you down.

– I swiveled in the other direction and took in the immense sectionals. I’d walked past them to get here. They loomed larger than my living space, and all had women’s names affixed to them: Lola, Thelma, Jenna, Lily, Stella, Simone, Catherine, Scarlet. None of them had my name. — Emily Schultz in At Length

– Lala’s on her phone, arguing with her mom in Korean. I’m in the passenger seat, breaking up bud on an Abnormal Psychology textbook, a class I think Lala flunked out of. — Lacey Martinez in Pitbull Magazine

– Chicanos, he says, gangs, Norteños. I kind of just zone-out listening to him. Maybe he’s right, but I’m worried he’s going to say something really messed up and the people around the bar will hear it and think I’m with him. I get the bartender’s attention. Same girl from the other day. — David Como in THIS Literary Magazine

– A talking woman was on the screen but they couldn’t hear what she was saying because Delores had turned the sound down. The woman’s hair was like a bubble that encased her head, with a large curl exactly in the center of her forehead. — Allen Kopp in /One/

– Blinded by headlight filaments, smell wet heat beating off motor, see driver open-eyed through windscreen condensation. Tyrespray soaks clothes; shutting it out and turning away, prepare your bones. Unbearable roar, and here it comes, now, the death blow, now! now… — Allen Gillespie in The Waterhouse Review