Xperience Fiction

The Turd: An American Journey, Chapter 12 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Standing in a line of cars waiting for the overworked, myopic guard to grant them passage, Ernest had all the feeling of the flight into an apocalypse. Cars bumper to bumper on the way out and only six or seven, his […]

The Turd: An American Journey, Chapter 11 – Xperience Monthly – by Liam Sweeny. Lysette pulled back their curtains, Navy blackout, to get a peek at the crowd, which had neither grown nor shrunk since they showed up. Cops didn’t want any part of it, told them to call 911 if it got feisty, their […]

The Turd: An American Journey, Chptr 10 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Ernest sat in the green room with his palms making out with his knees. His eyes made time with the brick face of the outer wall and the bare sheet-rock inner walls. The fluorescent overhead bulb strobed out in a rust-edged […]

The Turd: An American Journey – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Ernest sat in the green room with his palms making out with his knees. His eyes made time with the brick face of the outer wall and the bare sheet-rock inner walls. The fluorescent overhead bulb strobed out in a rust-edged ballast. The […]

The Turd: An American Journey, Chptr. 9 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. People had a remarkable convention of seeing a thing and asking a question, even when the question has been asked a hundred times, and the answers are well established in the flow of comments. Ernest read off the questions and answered […]

The Turd: An American Journey, Chptr 8 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. If a weary, weathered man could push a train car full of fresh struck coal through the tunnel in a mountain pass, he would surely be a better man than Ernest Kreb, on a toilet, jeans hugging his shins, belt-buckle tapping […]

The Turd: An American Journey, Chptr. 7 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. A stone-washed jean jacket hovering over good old-fashioned dungarees, a tweed flat cap with a tartan pattern. He’d had the outfit for years, as he did every other outfit in his closet, his fastidious care and handiness behind a sewing needle […]

The Turd: An American Journey, Chptr. 6 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Ernest walked down Cornwater Street with his hands in his pockets, fists clenched, compressing the grime on his palms into diamond dust. How could Lysette do that to him? He didn’t want to be jealous and he ran it through and […]

The Turd: An American Journey, Chptr 5 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. The spirit and whole intent of Doctor Frankenstein, in the opinion of Ernest Kreb, did escape the pitchforked masses and the confines of a stormy mountain castle to grab hold of the first mechanics, who would, over a hundred years, give […]

The Turd: An American Journey – Chptr 4 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. A ringmaster in a top hat hyped the crowd assembled, each to a one blowing hot air out of a noisemaker in between shouts of “you can do it” and “go Ernie!” Hobo clowns circled around him with big balloon […]