Jeff Wild

Joined October 2021

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An old freak looking for a way to survive in a world I no longer understand, but through my writing, pretend I do.

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On a Freight Train to Hell
He awoke naked, his back on a cold metallic floor. His eyes couldn't breach the darkness, but the steady clang of steel wheels against the tracks, the vibration, and the constant lateral shifting told him where he was. A woman sat atop him, straddling him, he inside her. Her breasts brushed his chest. She moaned whenever the train turned sharply or hit an irregular patch of track. He felt simultaneously confused, fearful, and masterful.
By Jeff Wild3 years ago in Fiction
Scars, Love, and Laughter
I had always been attracted to damaged women, women who were so vibrant, you’d never suspect the radiance they exuded was their way of blinding the world to their pained and twisted souls.
By Jeff Wild4 years ago in Fiction
A Cat a Blanket and the Nazis
Back in ’69, I was a nineteen-year-old hippie living alternately in my car and at my parent’s apartment in Queens. On a chilly autumn night, taking advantage of my parent’s hospitality and in need of warmer clothes, I opened their storage closet, liberated the raunchiest old blanket I could find and turned it into a poncho.
By Jeff Wild4 years ago in Humans
The Spider God
It was the tiniest spider the man had ever seen, no bigger than a black dot from a ballpoint pen. The man would not have noticed it, had it not been for the four legs symmetrically splayed on either side of the spec, and its frenzied, unsuccessful attempts to escape the sink, as the giant hovered above it.
By Jeff Wild4 years ago in Fiction
Compelled By Words
“And Sarah knew this was her death.” “Damn cliched shit! “ Smith pounded the typewriter with a side of his fist. Forty keys met at the ribbon and stayed there. He untangled the mess and set his mind and fingers to work again, only to find that his typewriter no longer had an l, A, K, or O.
By Jeff Wild4 years ago in Fiction

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On a Freight Train to Hell

Scars, Love, and Laughter

A Cat a Blanket and the Nazis

The Spider God

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