Cory Finley
Cory Finley
Recent Stories
When the going gets tough, the tough get Popov
We come into the world wet and wriggling under cold hospital lights. A doctor slaps us on the ass and then it’s all downhill from there. For the first half of our lives we’re stupid; for the second half we’re sad. And for a particularly lovely period in the middle, we’re both.
The Way to Eternal Bumpiness
I’m walking along a great tract of empty beach, and I discover, etched along the tide line, a series of sandy squiggles that form the words of a poem. Did some supernatural hand etch them there, I wonder, some maritime phantom? Or is it all a freak accident, a chance alignment of random markings?