34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE

34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE

This is a hurting game.

34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE
Jun 12, 2025
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Some day he said you know it’ll be you. You think you understand that but you don’t do you? Not until Some Day kicks in your door and sits on your chest and asks if you’ve had enough yet.

A HURTING GAME BY BEN FOWLKES 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 132

A HURTING GAME

Before he went all the way crazy I remember

how BJ Penn would greet these moments

of human carnage by saying

so calmly: This is a hurting game.

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