Fiction. "A Molotov cocktail flies through the air, rotating end over end as it moves forward,graceful in its slow motion revolutions. It stops mid-air, suspended. A drum beatplays lightly in the background. Boom boom pop, ba boom boom pop, boom boompop, ba boom boom pop. Like that. The bottle, the gasoline inside, the air surroundingit, almost everything is motionless. Only the flame still burns, still continues to devour the rag. The bottle is clear glass, and the sky behind it is cloudless."

Author Hometown: DENVER, CO USA



About the author: David Wirthlin is the author of HOUNDSTOOTH (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009) and Your Disappearance (forthcoming from BlazeVOX Books). His work has appeared in DENVER QUARTERLY, elimae, Sleepingfish, Harp & Altar, and The 2nd Hand. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently at work on a PhD from the University of Denver. David is editor of the smallHABITS chap-journal of innovative fiction.

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