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BookGlutton / Matt Sumell presented by msumell
Matt Sumell
BookGlutton’s first featured contemporary author is very good, very gutsy, very broke, and an all-round wonderful writer. A graduate of UC Irvine’s esteemed MFA program, Matt Sumell’s short fiction has so far appeared in Faultline, The Brooklyn Review, SaltGrass, and NOON. We're honored to present you with three previously unpublished pieces of this up-and-coming talent.
A native of Long Island, New York, Sumell is currently living in Los Angeles and finishing up his first collection of short stories, tentatively titled MAKING NICE.
BookGlutton’s first featured contemporary author is very good, very gutsy, very broke, and an all-round wonderful writer. A graduate of UC Irvine’s esteemed MFA program, Matt Sumell’s short fiction has so far appeared in Faultline, The Brooklyn Review, SaltGrass, and NOON. We're honored to present you with three previously unpublished pieces of this up-and-coming talent.
A native of Long Island, New York, Sumell is currently living in Los Angeles and finishing up his first collection of short stories, tentatively titled MAKING NICE.
ORIGINAL WORK ON BOOKGLUTTON.COM BY Matt Sumell
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“MY BROTHER bet me five hundred dollars she wouldn’t make it past December. I accepted and won—Grandma died January 3rd.... Book detail Read it now
“MY BROTHER bet me five hundred dollars she wouldn’t make it past December. I accepted and won—Grandma died January 3rd.... Book detail Read it now
Donny
“OUTSIDE, in the gravel and weed parking lot, near a log that means Don’t go any further or you’ll drive into the bay, I said, “Donny, Donny, Donny wake up, wake up Donny, Donny wake up, Donny, Donny, Donny you’re a mailman…” and then I kicked him, gently, in the ribs. ... Book detail Read it now
“OUTSIDE, in the gravel and weed parking lot, near a log that means Don’t go any further or you’ll drive into the bay, I said, “Donny, Donny, Donny wake up, wake up Donny, Donny wake up, Donny, Donny, Donny you’re a mailman…” and then I kicked him, gently, in the ribs. ... Book detail Read it now
Eat the Milk
“FOR MY BROTHER’S twenty-fourth birthday I bought him a little plastic horsey doll that came with a little plastic orange comb so you could little plastic orange comb its mane and tail and shiny coat, but before I could mail it to him my grandmother peeled the medicinal transdermal patch off her body and ate it. ... Book detail Read it now
“FOR MY BROTHER’S twenty-fourth birthday I bought him a little plastic horsey doll that came with a little plastic orange comb so you could little plastic orange comb its mane and tail and shiny coat, but before I could mail it to him my grandmother peeled the medicinal transdermal patch off her body and ate it. ... Book detail Read it now
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