Ben Burgis
Excerpt
The first year after they legalized pot, everything you could get at gas stations and convenience stores was unsmokably wretched. It was like iceburg lettuce, ground up and sprinkled with stale bong water. Only not so appetizing as all that.
Oh, sometimes you’d walk into a store and they’d have a clear plastic bag of the good stuff sitting by the counter, and there’d be a hand-written price tag taped to it and a shit-eating grin on the face of the old hippie behind the cash register, but that was rare. Even old hippies worried about the FDA.
from "So Green and Sticky It Makes You Want To Cry"
Bio
Ben Burgis is a low-residency MFA student at the University of Southern Maine (Stonecoast), a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the University of Miami, and an adjunct Philosophy instructor at Miami-Dade College. He’s also a proud member of the Clarion West Writers Workshop Class of 2006. His story “Three Perspectives on the Role of the Anarchists in the Zombie Apocalypse,” originally published in Afterburn SF, won the 2nd Place Prize in the 2008 Period I contest at Tales of the Zombie War. More recently, his stories have appeared in Flytrap and Diet Soap.
Publications
"The True Meaning of K-Day," Diet Soap
"T-Shirts, Tentacles and the Melting Point of Steel," Atomjack Magazine
"Of Rum, Madness, Thunderstorms and Prayer," Atomjack Magazine
Goals
200 words a day throughout the six weeks of the Write-a-thon.
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