Welcome to The Very First Issue of Vending Machine Press
We live in a time of diverse mediums and expressions where literature online has become a thriving creative form transforming the literary firmament. Vending Machine Press [...]
The Repercussions of Clipping a Parrot’s Wings by Matthew Dexter
Last night, I loaded the pipe with freebase and watched the Houston Astros balling through the rusty rabbit ears. Ocean orange, fluorescent lime-green lizard licking rheum [...]
Wrigley Field by Mike Lafontaine
Wrigley Field was a like second home to me when I was a boy. I grew up in Deerfield, Illinois. I had no brothers or sisters it was just me and my cat Eloise. My father was [...]
When She Was Good by Siri Williams
“You wanna know what the problem is with people around here?” The cigarette between her lips muffled her words; her fierce eyes fixed upon me with a typically unnerving [...]
Hindsight by Peter McMillan
Street level in the financial district it was dark and the streetlights were still on. Overhead the sky was blue and sunlight glinted off the windows of the upper floors. [...]
Confessions of a Lunch Thief by Allie Marini Batts
I’m just like any other kind of criminal. I started small. In kindergarten. My life of crime can be traced back to a natural-foods loving mother. It was lunch after lunch [...]
Coffee Stains by Christina Murphy
Carrying a Starbucks Venti with double cream down the steps, he trips, hits his head, and the coffee spills out into a small brown river. Tiny figures—maybe faeries—skate [...]
