Tag: Rejection

A portrait of Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna in a gold frame sticks out of a rusted green dumpster alongside a pizza box and trash bags outside sand-colored stucco apartment buildings.

“Dumpster Lives” * Fiction * Yash Seyedbagheri

aromatica poetica May 6, 2020

I like sorting through the dumpster behind my apartment every night. I inhale possibility and pungency, moldy cheddar cheese, dying pizzas. I examine discarded items with tenderness, even if I must crane my neck. There are boxes for flat screen TVs, crumpled cartons of Bud Light, blue and white arresting my eyes. Old newspapers. Styrofoam and crumpled cardboard. Discarded garbage cans. But there’s also a crumpled joint or two and a couple Michelina’s TV dinners with their soothing green boxes. …

Botanical drawing of Humulus lupulus = hops – mug of beer = clinking beer mugs emoji. By Alabaster Rhumb for Yash Seyedbagheri fiction.

“I Like Beer” * Flash Fiction * Yash Seyedbagheri

aromatica poetica November 8, 2019

Nick thinks of beer. No, he dreams of beer. Hungover, ghost of six beers past churning in his corpulent stomach, that word sings, beer. Beer. En route to classes, a graduate student he thinks about beer. He conjures the amber ale of 90 Shillings, the bitter sour of a La Folies from New Belgium. He tries not to conjure beer, but after another lecture from his father, full of dissection, bad son, weak, too artistic, the beer calls. Drink me, …