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Bad Daughter
It's as if she has taken the Almighty aside and nudged Him in the ribs... 
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He Took a Cab
It isn't just the fares who are down on their luck, if they ever had any luck at all, but the cabbies, too ... |
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Panic
These poems address the limitations of our control over our fates, our private grief and longing ... |
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Poems Against War
Anybody who thinks writing a good poem is easier than making a fine cabinet is an oaf ...
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Shadow Traffic
Richard Burgin's fiction is often described as "gritty," but after reading his latest scintillating collection of stories, I thought perhaps a better descriptor might be "seedy." ...
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Show Up, Look Good
In the end we might just as well take Wisniewski on his own terms because the story and characters don't necessarily fall into neat comparisons ... |
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Stalin in Aruba
… brims with a dark humor. The poetry, lyrical, full of fresh, vivid imagery, is saturated with grim irony ...
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The Iron Boys
At times you can even hear Huck Finn in Corbel's narrative...
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Tracks
A parade of colorful characters reappear throughout, narratives overlap ...
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Quictions
Neon
by Cait Turner
… like those old bodies coughing spasmodically into hazy neon evening, nothing stays forever ...
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Quictions
Twist Ending
by Eric Cline
It was written (with deliberate vagueness) that Les dressed in a business shirt, but no one ever said what business he was in ...
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Family for Sale
by Eric Goodman
It's a shame, when you think about it, that you can't trade in a family. Like a car or a girlfriend ...
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Lunch on the Grass
by Michael Hemmingson
I see no use in starting a war with any adult here in the park ...
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Duffy
by Jeevak Lal
"He who dares wins, he who dares wins," was Duffy's joyous response ...
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An Interlude
by Jeffrey Price
"And if he jumped off a bridge?"
"That'd probably mean he was jumping after me, Daddy."...
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Remembering the Blackout of 2003
by John Richmond
It wasn't until the station went completely dead that I slowly began to put two and two, together ...
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Suited for Marriage
by Julie Mark Cohen
"Look at this. The New York State Legislature passed the same-sex marriage bill and Governor Cuomo signed it. In thirty days, you could've saved your money and gotten married at home."...
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Katie Dissed by The Wall
by Melanie Bacon
"... or pick up a sword and take vengeance against whatever heinous bad guys were responsible for this human/animal/vegetable or mineral tragedy."
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The Four Seasons
by Paul Dickey
I had to laugh. I didn't know if he knew what I knew about Sherry (turned out he didn't), but it didn't matter....
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How She's Changed
by Kelly Cherry
He had begged for her love ...
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