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foofaraw

Kevin Humdrum

A zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations published by humdrum industries.

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SPONSORED This week’s ad slot was purchased by friend of Foofaraw, Evan Passero, in support of the Denton Community Food Center—providing emergency food assistance from a central community storehouse to needy families and individuals in...
The December issues of Foofaraw Zine, Four-headed Foofaraw, and Little Letter of Nonsense are here! Of course, all stories will be published for free on the web throughout the month, but paid supporters receive a PDF/EPUB with all of the...
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 Subs’ 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 Nicole’s story, Occupational hazards, on Foofaraw now!Let’s 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 you’re a fellow ink-stained wretch—this is an age-old term for a writer—you may be unaware of the controversy sweeping certain corners of the Internet—by 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, “goddamn Gary.” The man...
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SPONSORED A fun place for people who love the web. Learn more “We need new papers.”His English was marked by an accent she didn’t 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:🍝 Marinara, Marinara by Stuart...
SPONSORED This week’s ad slot was purchased by friend of Foofaraw, Evan Passero, in support of Elevated Access—a non-profit organization that enables people to access healthcare by providing flights on private planes at no cost, whose...
SPONSORED This week’s ad slot was purchased by friend of Foofaraw, Evan Passero, in support of Elevated Access—a non-profit organization that enables people to access healthcare by providing flights on private planes at no cost, whose...
So. That was stupid.There’s a cliché in the movies—a 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 week’s ad slot was purchased by friend of Foofaraw, Evan Passero, in support of Elevated Access—a 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, I’d like to give a tremendous thank you to our wonderful judges, Casey Aimer (of Radon Journal), Charlie Fish (of Fiction on the...
🏆First place winner of An ordinary contest 2025Exit, the punk bar on North Avenue—you know the one, just west of the overpass and the landfill beneath—that’s where we met. Well, that’s what we told people at parties, if they asked. It...
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