As This Neighborhood’s Oldest Rubber Yard Zombie, I Call for an End to Our Severed Arms Race

We lurch toward Halloween amidst gaping societal wounds.

Audrey Burges
The Belladonna Comedy
3 min readOct 20, 2020

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I appeal to you now as our neighborhood’s elder statesman of gore. (Image credit: Audrey Burges)

My oozing brethren, I come to you now — as our neighborhood’s elder statesman of gore — to groan the words you should all be thinking, if you have any BRAAAAIIIINNNSSSS…

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Author, THE MINISCULE MANSION OF MYRA MALONE (Berkley 2023); work in McSweeney’s, Belladonna, Slackjaw, & elsewhere. Twitter: @audrey_burges; audreyburges.com.