#thesideshow April 7th 2015 Cathode by Jesse Bradley

The wine sours in my stomach. I don’t know how my father slept without dribbling out our old names. I dull Helen’s face. I dull Neil’s original first name. I dull every new name my father gave me. I wave the empty wine bottle in the TVs face, threaten to blind it. 
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J. Bradley's is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominated writer whose work has appeared in numerous literary journals including decomP, Hobart, and Prairie Schooner. He was the Interviews Editor of PANK, the Flash Fiction Editor of NAP, and the Web Editor of Monkeybicycle. He is the author of the poetry collection Dodging Traffic (Ampersand Books, 2009), the novella Bodies Made of Smoke (HOUSEFIRE, 2012), the graphic poetry collection The Bones of Us (YesYes Books, 2014), illustrated by Adam Scott Mazer, and the forthcoming prose poetry chapbook, It Is A Wild Swing Of A Knife (Choose the Sword Press, 2015). He is the curator of the Central Florida reading series There Will Be Words and lives at iheartfailure.net.