Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

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Mar 09, 2023
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Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal has an archive of 923 short stories. I think that’s more than the average person could read in a year. A subscription to Roulette Weal unlocks a whole library, but unlike a library full of dead and hard to reach authors, you can discuss the stories with me. I’d say that’s worth an annual subscription.

I woke up two hours before my alarm. Usually I just go back to sleep.

Today I couldn’t.

Erno’s dog died.

That didn’t wake me, but he called me when I shouldn’t have been awake.

Some chemical truck was in the alley behind the house. Guy was fiddling with some valve.

Erno caught it on his doorbell camera.

I don’t have one of those. I don’t wanna know what goes on outside. 

Guy leaked some shit out of the truck, Erno says. It seeped under the fence. 

Bill, his dog, licked it.

It was a cool dog. 

Erno wants me to shoot the truck driver.

That’s not

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