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It’s not hard to be happy.

NOT HARD BY KIRSTEN JONES NEFF 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 08
Remember that life is funny. It is also a gift. Life is a funny gift.

JE SUIS UN ARTISTE BY KYLE MANGAN 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 08

Tell me what you see in your mind’s eye.

HEALING BY ALEXANDER CARPENTER 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 08
“Tell me what you see,” the healer woman said. “Tell me what you see in your mind’s eye.”
“Falstaff,” my brother said.
“Falstaff?” she asked.
“It’s from Shakespeare,” I told the woman.
“I know it’s from Shakespeare,” she whispered, as if to not disrupt the flow of energy. “I just don’t know if it counts as a word.”

Then he said, close to her ear, “So—would you like to spend the night with a future rock star?”

INNERSPACE BY DAVID W LANDRUM 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 08

She almost laughed at him. She said it might be nice but she needed to go.

He wished he got things.

BORROWING THE HOUSE FOR THE WEEKEND BY DAVID BARNES 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 08
Up here on the hill there was only the sky sailing over the village. Clouds shredded and tore as he watched.

She lives for this.

SPEED OF LIGHT BY HELEN SILVERSTEIN 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 08
Angelina reaches for her pack of cigarettes and pulls the lighter plug. She likes that red glow, the feel of the smoke filling her lungs, the feel of her strength as she blows all that smoke out through her nose, blows out all that shit from the day and guns the car a bit more.