foofaraw
foofaraw
Kevin Humdrum
A zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations published by humdrum industries.
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SPONSORE A fun place for people who love the web. Learn more The day is Sunday.The air is cold and crisp.But there is still time to vote for us for Chill Subsâ Best Lit Mag Awards. This week was supposed to be a productive one for me....
SPONSORED A fun place for people who love the web. Learn more Read Nicoleâs story, Occupational hazards, on Foofaraw now!Letâs get right into it⊠where do you think your distrust and suspicion of technology come from?Who says I distrust...
SPONSORED A fun place for people who love the web. Learn more Unless youâre a fellow ink-stained wretchâthis is an age-old term for a writerâyou may be unaware of the controversy sweeping certain corners of the Internetâby corners, I...
When Gary Whippet turned up dead, Pinnacle Ergonomics had to cancel its Tuesday lunch-and-learn. Apparently, the forfeited catering was the greater of the two losses. More than one co-worker walked by muttering, âgoddamn Gary.â The man...
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SPONSORED A fun place for people who love the web. Learn more âWe need new papers.âHis English was marked by an accent she didnât recognise. This was unusual. Only a handful of pockets of resistance remained to the flattening influences...
Over the weekend, we printed out five pieces of short fiction and one poem to mail out to NY. And now we'd like to present our six nominees for the 2026 Pushcart Prize. All available to read for free:đ Marinara, Marinara by Stuart...
SPONSORED This weekâs ad slot was purchased by friend of Foofaraw, Evan Passero, in support of Elevated Accessâa non-profit organization that enables people to access healthcare by providing flights on private planes at no cost, whose...
SPONSORED This weekâs ad slot was purchased by friend of Foofaraw, Evan Passero, in support of Elevated Accessâa non-profit organization that enables people to access healthcare by providing flights on private planes at no cost, whose...
So. That was stupid.Thereâs a clichĂ© in the moviesâa trope. Something terrible is about to happen; you know it, I know it, everyone in the audience knows it. The close-up of a nut vibrating its way free from a bolt in a rotor means fate...
SPONSORED This weekâs ad slot was purchased by friend of Foofaraw, Evan Passero, in support of Elevated Accessâa non-profit organization that enables people to access healthcare by providing flights on private planes at no cost, whose...
The results are in! If you just want to read the winning stories you can jump down to the bottom.But first, Iâd like to give a tremendous thank you to our wonderful judges, Casey Aimer (of Radon Journal), Charlie Fish (of Fiction on the...
đFirst place winner of An ordinary contest 2025Exit, the punk bar on North Avenueâyou know the one, just west of the overpass and the landfill beneathâthatâs where we met. Well, thatâs what we told people at parties, if they asked. It...
đSecond place winner of An ordinary contest 2025It was the day the whole world went away. The day when the messy, confusing, complicated summation of everything that ever is and was decided to pop, a reverse big bang, matter condensing...
đThird place winner of An ordinary contest 2025Todayâlike most daysâthe amnesiac was really and truly in a pickle. He was late, though he kept forgetting what for, and as he droveâon muscle memory alone, for he couldnât remember taking...