"The Ten-Century Man" by Mike Meginnis in Electric Literature

I put my shovel in the ground and stomped it deeper with my good foot. I tossed the dirt over my shoulder. My brother helped. Soon our best shirts were turned brown and there was a hole three feet deep. In the hole there was a small white hand. My brother said he saw it too. Read story here.

Best story I've read this year; it's a western, horror, surreal, all that and more. Hails from the Lazy Fascist Review, whose favorite author list is spot the fuck on. Gotta get me one of these.

The first floor is where the liquor’s kept. The second floor is where the drunks sleep it off. It used to be a place for using prostitutes, but the murderers made them all go away, one way or another; some became bodies, some fled, and many were forgotten, because we confused them with each other anyway, because they mostly wore the same clothes, and many of them even shared, with just one real dress between them—and it was a fine dress, with fine embellishments, but if one in any pair of girls was clothed, then the other was working. - See more at: http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/post/85714616587/the-ten-century-man-by-mike-meginnis-recommended-by#sthash.Vdn6BsJv.dpuf

The first floor is where the liquor’s kept. The second floor is where the drunks sleep it off. It used to be a place for using prostitutes, but the murderers made them all go away, one way or another; some became bodies, some fled, and many were forgotten, because we confused them with each other anyway, because they mostly wore the same clothes, and many of them even shared, with just one real dress between them—and it was a fine dress, with fine embellishments, but if one in any pair of girls was clothed, then the other was working. - See more at: http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/post/85714616587/the-ten-century-man-by-mike-meginnis-recommended-by#sthash.Vdn6BsJv.dpuf

The first floor is where the liquor’s kept. The second floor is where the drunks sleep it off. It used to be a place for using prostitutes, but the murderers made them all go away, one way or another; some became bodies, some fled, and many were forgotten, because we confused them with each other anyway, because they mostly wore the same clothes, and many of them even shared, with just one real dress between them—and it was a fine dress, with fine embellishments, but if one in any pair of girls was clothed, then the other was working. - See more at: http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/post/85714616587/the-ten-century-man-by-mike-meginnis-recommended-by#sthash.Vdn6BsJv.dpuf

The first floor is where the liquor’s kept. The second floor is where the drunks sleep it off. It used to be a place for using prostitutes, but the murderers made them all go away, one way or another; some became bodies, some fled, and many were forgotten, because we confused them with each other anyway, because they mostly wore the same clothes, and many of them even shared, with just one real dress between them—and it was a fine dress, with fine embellishments, but if one in any pair of girls was clothed, then the other was working. - See more at: http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/post/85714616587/the-ten-century-man-by-mike-meginnis-recommended-by#sthash.Vdn6BsJv.dpuf

The first floor is where the liquor’s kept. The second floor is where the drunks sleep it off. It used to be a place for using prostitutes, but the murderers made them all go away, one way or another; some became bodies, some fled, and many were forgotten, because we confused them with each other anyway, because they mostly wore the same clothes, and many of them even shared, with just one real dress between them—and it was a fine dress, with fine embellishments, but if one in any pair of girls was clothed, then the other was working. - See more at: http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/post/85714616587/the-ten-century-man-by-mike-meginnis-recommended-by#sthash.Vdn6BsJv.dpuf

The first floor is where the liquor’s kept. The second floor is where the drunks sleep it off. It used to be a place for using prostitutes, but the murderers made them all go away, one way or another; some became bodies, some fled, and many were forgotten, because we confused them with each other anyway, because they mostly wore the same clothes, and many of them even shared, with just one real dress between them—and it was a fine dress, with fine embellishments, but if one in any pair of girls was clothed, then the other was working. - See more at: http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/post/85714616587/the-ten-century-man-by-mike-meginnis-recommended-by#sthash.Vdn6BsJv.dpuf

The first floor is where the liquor’s kept. The second floor is where the drunks sleep it off. It used to be a place for using prostitutes, but the murderers made them all go away, one way or another; some became bodies, some fled, and many were forgotten, because we confused them with each other anyway, because they mostly wore the same clothes, and many of them even shared, with just one real dress between them—and it was a fine dress, with fine embellishments, but if one in any pair of girls was clothed, then the other was working. - See more at: http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/post/85714616587/the-ten-century-man-by-mike-meginnis-recommended-by#sthash.Vdn6BsJv.dpuf

The first floor is where the liquor’s kept. The second floor is where the drunks sleep it off. It used to be a place for using prostitutes, but the murderers made them all go away, one way or another; some became bodies, some fled, and many were forgotten, because we confused them with each other anyway, because they mostly wore the same clothes, and many of them even shared, with just one real dress between them—and it was a fine dress, with fine embellishments, but if one in any pair of girls was clothed, then the other was working. - See more at: http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/post/85714616587/the-ten-century-man-by-mike-meginnis-recommended-by#sthash.Vdn6BsJv.dpuf