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#115: Erasure Poems by Justin Hamm
Sources Like a horse: Erasure from “The Dead,” James Joyce, Dubliners Her name was: Erasure from “Araby,” James Joyce, Dubliners Justin Hamm’s most recent book…
#114: Nonfiction by Ruth Neuwald Falcon
EVERYTHING WANTS TO LIVE (Photo credit: Sue Robin) It took my father a very long time to die. He started shortly before my eighteenth birthday…
#113: Poems by John Dorsey
HARRY DEAN STANTON CHANGES THE OIL FOR SID HAIG this is the motorcycle movie that roger corman never madea country on firefull of slow rolling…
#112: Fiction by Siamak Vossoughi
NEW IN TOWN I had moved to the kind of town where if during the course of normal conversation, the question of where I was…
#111: Nonfiction by Yvonne Wakefield
CUNTSVILLE.ORG That churlish smirk made me look down, not in submission, but in search of a shattering vessel to address her kisser. The perfect hourglass-vase…
#110: Three Poems by Theodore Worozbyt
HOURS The bruises change with the hour. You lie in bed listening to the Lloyd Cole the semi-invented Russian did or did not send across…
#109: Fiction by Krissi Stocks
MOUNTAIN ASH Iris was determined. She would stay here until her fingers froze and her lips turned blue. A nine-year-old popsicle. She remembered reading a…
#108: Nonfiction by Joanne Furio
YOU ARE MY CANDY GIRL “I want a quarter pound of nonpareils!” She was my grandmother’s age. Wore the same cat’s eyeglasses and navy polka-dot dress.…
#107: Nonfiction by David James
ELEVATOR OPERATORS AND PILOTS We were cruising west under a moonless dome of stars against the usual nighttime flow of heavy traffic bound for Europe. Our…
#106: Nonfiction by Lindsey Wente
SLUTS DON’T HAVE BABIES It’s Christmas on the Wente side, which means it is January, Grandma Kathy is making chicken and rice, and everyone I’ve…
#105: Poetry by Peycho Kanev
WHEN WINTER COMES… The skyanother kind of skyand so is the light seepingover hereabove the plains coveredin snowlike a sheet of plain white paper,there lies…
#104: Nonfiction by Michael Zimecki
RADIUM MAN Ebenezer MacBurney Byers delighted in telling everyone, especially his female friends, that he was radioactive. “I’ll make you glow,” he said to every…
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#103: Nonfiction by Madison Block
ALL MY LOVE ALWAYS “These look like engagement photos,” Mads laughed as we looked at the pictures we had taken at Keukenhof, the famous tulip…
#102: Nonfiction by William Tang
THE DREAMED WALL “But for a dream, the Great Wall was built; but for the wall, the empire fell.” He Zi-Qing何自清, Chinese historian In…
