Anthony Zumpano
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Anthony Zumpano
What's the worst that could happen?
Who?
What?
Short Fiction
Nonfiction
Short Plays and Comedy Sketches
Professional Work Portfolio
Where?
How?
Home
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
Stories that won’t waste your entire day.
Click a title, get a story. Easy, right?
A Letter of Apology to the Leprechaun
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[VIDEO VERSION]
So You Wanna Buy a Robot? [VIDEO VERSION]
When I Flipped Off the UFO
When I Went Screaming, Naked, into the Night [VIDEO VERSION]
Some Crabby Talk about Hermits
My Argument with the Chicken
A Conversation with My Cellmate on My Last Day in Prison
A Conversation with a Bird about Birds
Don’t Visit a Cardiologist for Affairs of the Heart
That Fucking Snowman
When I Went Screaming, Naked, into the Night
My Last Cigarette
Tree Wishes
So You Wanna Buy a Robot?
On Discovering the Love of My Life in the Middle of the Long Island Expressway
The Devil and Ice Cream Sandwiches
Upon Running into My Twin at the Well
The Ongoing Thoughts of a Senator on the Day They Stabbed Caesar
The Leopard in the HOV Lane
The Day I Brought a Gun to a Knife Fight
Shoelaces
I Had to Cut Off My Arms Today
When Grandma Attacked Me with a Knife for the Third and Final Time
On Discussing whether I Plan to Write a Story about Our Relationship
No One Told Me I Had a Time Machine!
Can You Please Return My Legs, Jerry?
Initial Thoughts as My House Burned to the Ground
My Aborted Crucifixion
Things I Said During Sex with Colonel Sanders that One Time in 1964
Existential Phone Call
The (Hand) Job
On Trying to Convince My Host Not to Eat Me
My Trip to Hell
The Day I Learned to Fly and Then Visited My Ex-Girlfriend
Treadmill
Some Questions for My Roommate about Celery
The Riddle of the Riddle the Sphinx
THE INNERMOST THOUGHTS OF THE SECURITY GUARD AT THE TOURNEAU WATCH STORE AT THE WALT WHITMAN MALL IN HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK, ON MAY 16, 2017
BreadDeath
On Trying to Choke My Good Friend to Death
My Mom and the Moon
My Greatest Foe
[Untitled story I wrote on a Post-It]
Eros, My Washing Machine
Near-Life Experience
The Job
The Hunter
Probing Issues
The Three People I Would Kill
Some Last Thoughts
SURPRISE!
When I Realized I Either Was, or Was Turning into, a Robot
I Hired a Prostitute Not to Have Sex with Her
Thank You for Not Murdering Me!
Death by Typist
Giving Tuesday
A World Without Rollercoasters
My Response
The Day I Decided to Cut Off My Arm