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Only in Miami Stories from The Miami Creation Myth
Florida Rising Chapter 35
Six Florida Air National Guard F-35 fighter jets zoomed overhead.
Florida Rising Chapter 34
Noah’s lab was a small, nondescript, one-story building surrounded by big box strip clubs.
Florida Rising Chapter 33
Santos removed her Prada sunglasses and turned to Thing 0, who stood beside her on a stage at the Bulge’s summit. “Why does this thing look like a penis?”
Florida Rising Chapter 32
At some point in their fugue states, Carlos and Cynthia had joined their mats together so they awoke with her spooning him.
Florida Rising Chapter 31
“I do indeed,” said Daniel. “Y’all had plenty of your own tribal traditions in Europe, but Christianity carpet bombed that straight to hell 2,000 years ago."
Florida Rising Chapter 30
Cynthia’s eyes narrowed. She opened a box of Plan B, removed the pill, and swallowed it, all without breaking eye contact with the cashier.
Florida Rising Chapter 29
Rhonda Santos sat cross-legged (Indian style, if it weren’t for the goddamned PC police) on a king-sized mattress in the Palm Beach Four Seasons’ presidential suite.
Florida Rising Chapter 28
“Your fetish isn’t dumbification…” Cynthia's voice grew louder, more firm. She looked him dead in the eye. “Your real kink is mansplaining.”
Florida Rising Chapter 27
The back of her head hit the concrete hard, obscuring her vision with a flurry of dark spots, but she didn’t mind. She deserved far worse.
Florida Rising Chapter 26
Monica’s alarm woke her the same way she always transitioned into consciousness: violently, with a flurry of arms, legs, and sheets all fueled by panic.
Florida Rising Chapter 25
Florida Governor Rhonda Santos was 30,000 feet above Central Florida on a private jet, her hands gripping her head in disbelief.
Florida Rising Chapter 25
“ANTIFA!” yelled the Guardsman before emptying an entire magazine into the menacing shadow.
Florida Rising Chapter 23
Just one of Carlos’ two guest rooms was larger than Cynthia’s entire apartment. The bathroom was larger than her bedroom.
Florida Rising Chapter 22
Carlos shook his head. This was far too much for a Saturday afternoon. It was about to get far worse.
Florida Rising Chapter 21
"The train is about to approach a turn," said bluebunny. "That’s when you’re going to jump out.”
Florida Rising Chapter 20
Instead of public bullet trains, Floridians purchases outrageously expensive tickets to travel the country’s killing-est locomotive from South to Central Florida.
Florida Rising Chapter 19
Looking around the stage, Cynthia was certain she was the only one who hadn’t had any work done.
Florida Rising Chapter 18
Shrieking tires echoed up and down the hall while a corner DJ booth pumped Danish electro-funk into the cavernous space.
Florida Rising Chapter 17
Good morning, partisan populists, patriarchs, and pussy pounders, and welcome to the Panhandle Patriot Podcast!
Florida Rising Chapter 16
Cynthia awoke to 238 missed emails, 186 missed calls, and 502 missed text messages.
Florida Rising Chapter 15
Governor Santos had lined up the entire, eight-man Thing squad shoulder to shoulder against the back wall of her office.
Florida Rising Chapter 14
Monica Castellanos lived in a van parked in an Atlanta campground.
Florida Rising Chapter 13
Cynthia spent 20 minutes convincing a pair of police officers that, no, she wasn’t the victim of an attempted murder.
Florida Rising Chapter 12
400 miles back south, a woman in a Midtown Miami apartment gave a celebratory yell so loud that three different neighbors called the cops.
Florida Rising Chapter 11
The following morning, Cynthia found a new folder on her desktop.
Florida Rising Chapter 10
A woman shifted on the crinkly paper pulled across the examination couch, a perturbed look on her face, staring at the “Beware of Eye Syphilis” poster.
Florida Rising Chapter 9
Carlos sidestepped to the left, so Cynthia sidestepped to the left. He shifted back to the right and she mirrored his move. She gave him a nervous smile.
Florida Rising Chapter 8
By the time Carlos powerwalked offstage, head down, ramrod in his pants swaying left and right with each step, the crowd was in a near-mutinous clamor.
Florida Rising Chapter 7
By the time Carlos powerwalked offstage, head down, ramrod in his pants swaying left and right with each step, the crowd was in a near-mutinous clamor.
Florida Rising Chapter 6
Daniel Cypress was having a rough morning.
How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 4: The Field
The Army takes everything you loved as a child and makes it awful. That’s how it turns hiking into its dirty, brutish cousin: rucking.
How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 3: Food & Sleep
And we’ve come to starvation. Healthy, athletic male college freshmen in industrialized countries tend not to weigh 113 pounds.
How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 2: Hazing & Marching
Forget whatever bullshit frat boy version of hazing you have in your head. West Point hazing circa 2005 was a creature completely apart.
How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 1: R-Day
“You’re not starving to death,” explained the 22-year-old medic gripping my ankle. “You’re just starving.”
Cuban Americans Heroically Fight for Kidnapped Mom by Doing Nothing
When a Cuban immigrant was kidnapped and separated from her nursing child, her community rose in righteous anger to do absolutely nothing.
The Difficulty of Satirizing MAGA
When they go low, we satirists must wantonly slam our heads into the ground until we tunnel to the other side of the planet.
Why I Removed 30,000 Pounds of Trash from the Mangroves
I made it, everyone! The Dirty Thirty. The Double Quinceañera. 30,000 pounds of trash.
The Miami Creation Myth Sells Out
Even when injured, dehydrated, moments from heat stroke, one wish kept me from collapsing into the mud forever: selling shirts to papi chulos.
ICE Deports Marco Rubio
“I’m the Secretary of State!” yelled a short, tubby man with a Miami accent. He shook his bars as the dozen other people in his cell grinned.








