Hyannis
John Bonanni I went to the mall and got distracted. There is so much to touch in the Gap, so many life-size pictures of attractive people to shake hands with. I walk around the carousel. I sip water...
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Blake Kimzey This time my older brother Chris got the van from some bum across town. It was a late model Chevy, off-white like a bruise and missing its gas cap. It sat like a ruined consolation prize...
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Book Review: The Island of Last Truth
Reviewed by Dan Coxon The Island of Last Truth, Flavia Company Europa Editions ISBN-13: 978-1609450816 $15.00, 144pp The desert island has a long and distinguished pedigree in literature. From...
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Book Review: Robinson’s Alone
Reviewed by Nicolle Elizabeth Robinson Alone, Kathleen Rooney Gold Wake Press ISBN 10: 0-9837001-4-1 $12.95, 130pp. Robinson Alone is a complex and devastating work. Kathleen Rooney, Publisher of...
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Genevieve Hudson We’ve been drunk since we arrived in Budapest. Partly because life is more fun with her when I’m too wasted to see how mean she is, and partly because we were almost in a plane crash...
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Tori Bond I can’t work because of my memory problems or my arrest record, but it’s a misunderstanding. Bill wants me to take my pills. I tell him it’s the Polterguests displacing my purse and phone....
View ArticleNo, They Do Everything on Porpoise
Jennifer Howard The dolphin was waiting for the man in the shallows because he couldn’t stay afloat and fuck her at the same time. No tail at all, poor thing. But at least he came alone. Her last...
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Book Review: Building Stories
Reviewed by Dan Coxon Building Stories, Chris Ware Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0375424335 $50.00, 260pp Chris Ware’s latest graphic novel isn’t a book. It’s barely even a novel. Building Stories is a boxed...
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Kaj Anderson-Bauer We were able to make it to the liquor store before it closed, and we sent Noah because he had a fake ID, and he looks trustworthy. He got us one of those big plastic bottles of...
View ArticleThe Secret Lives of Zombie Whales
Aimee Pogson With low moans and slapping tails, they hurl themselves upon the beach, pulling their heavy bodies across the sand. It is hunger that draws them from their ocean home, dazed and...
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Lit Journal Reviews: Bartleby Snopes and Cobalt
Reviewed by C.L. Bledsoe Bartleby-Snopes: Post-Experimentalism Nathaniel Tower, managing editor Bartleby-Snopes publishes stories, poems, interviews, and reviews, each month at www.bartlebysnopes.com....
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Dan Dotson Electromagnetic radiation is shot through the air in a coded frequency that amounts to a man’s voice, but is silent as it makes its journey across four states to the ear piece of another...
View ArticleShe Could Maybe Lift a Car
Kara Vernor When you walk into a party with blood on your face, well, people will think it’s your blood. Funny how that works. Like clothes and perfume. If you’re wearing it, it must yours. My friends...
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Darryl Crawford The girl behind me was kicking my seat to get my attention, but I would have none of it. “Is this guy honestly ignoring me?” she finally said, leaning forward so she could funnel the...
View ArticleAnachronisms of the Stomach
Ross McMeekin For his high-school English class, my son Eli has to write an essay about how each generation inevitably battles the one that precedes it, referencing Greek and Roman mythology. With a...
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52 Weeks/52 Interviews: Week One: Blake Butler and Sean Kilpatrick
Blake Butler is the author of There is No Year, Nothing: A Memoir of Insomnia, Ever, and Scorch Atlas, which was named Novel of the Year by 3:AM Magazine and a finalist for the Believer Book Award. He...
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Mike Sauve My own daughter is boring me in a way that is painful. She’s saying that movie producers have a vested interest in starlets going crazy, because crazy starlets generate gossip, and gossip is...
View ArticleBlood or Ketchup?? . . . It’s Blood!
The Ring Magazine: Wrestling Edition, Oct. 1965 Paul Arrand Rodgers From 1960-1964, the great, bronzed gods of wrestling, having tired of the emergency room, deemed the condiment a suitable replacement...
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52 Weeks/52 Interviews: Week Two: Colin Winnette
ANIMAL collection is Colin Winnette’s second book of fiction. His debut novel, Revelation, is available from Mutable Sound Press. Monkeybicycle: Spork Press is amazing, and they make...
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Matthew Burnside #7 Eliot was not like other magicians. On his sixth birthday while all the other boys were set to begin school, his father – known on the lips of all in the village as Rolfe the...
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