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Gym Etiquette Episode II: The Gym Creep by Antonios Maltezos

Woman at the gym the other day… three foot blood orange pony tail, blood orange as opposed to ginger, a pharmacy orange. Seen her before. She’s easy to spot between sets as I’m working on getting my breathing under control. I’ll look out across the gym and pick my points of reference, a good spot for me to focus my energy, my concentration for the next lift. If it happens to be a person and they…

Gym Etiquette, a hilarious new series by Antonios Maltezos

What is this Kool-Aid people are bringing into the gym with them these days? Huge jugs of the stuff. It’s not pre-workout boosters because that stuff, presumably, you chug before the workout. And post-workout, a donut’ll do. So it must be a during-workout concoction designed to keep you juiced up and raring to go so you don’t keel over mid-set. Don’t know any legit, over the counter substance…

Change Seven editor Antonios Maltezos reviews WHERE ALLIGATORS SLEEP: STORIES by Sheldon Lee Compton

Where Alligators Sleep: Stories by Sheldon Lee Compton

a review by Antonios Maltezos

Where Alligators Sleep: Stories by Sheldon Lee Compton

Foxhead Books, 2014

ISBN: 978-1-940876-08-5

There are hard drinkers, gamblers and junkies, addicts of all kinds in this flash collection but also regular folk whose problems might not seem as indomitable, at first glance.  It’s easily the first impression…