foofaraw
foofaraw
Kevin Humdrum
A zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations published by humdrum industries.
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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...
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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...
🏆Second place winner of An ordinary contest 2025It was the day the whole world went away. The day when the messy, confusing, complicated summation of everything that ever is and was decided to pop, a reverse big bang, matter condensing...
🏆Third place winner of An ordinary contest 2025Today—like most days—the amnesiac was really and truly in a pickle. He was late, though he kept forgetting what for, and as he drove—on muscle memory alone, for he couldn’t remember taking...
Well, I spent the last couple of days spending way too much time teaching myself how to sew by hand and then mending and patching up over twenty different things around the house. It's become a bit of an obsession looking for holes or...
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It started when the needle dropped itself, uninvited, onto a record I never bought. The air thickened like something was about to confess, and from the first scratchy note, I knew it wasn’t music. It was her voice. Telling me what she...
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Another week has officially begun... and Friday seems so far away... But our first writing contest is officially coming to a close as we’ve announced the winners, paid our finalists and judges—a total well over $600—and are preparing to...
time is a blur
A dispatch on games for November from James