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January 2013
Issue Highlights
Into Iraq, I Love Gitmo, Hotel Utopia, More Nutso From Ball Man, Numbers for Girls, Mark Nipple, Canoli Ganster (what's that?), Oppressed Women Redux, The Freak Chronicles, Autumn's Only Blood, Frantic Force and Infinite Suspension, Tale of Tommy Twice, The Rabbi's Husband, Love Slave, Salman Rushdie's Thing Making, Two New Orleans Poems, Sestina for Asma Al Asad, Goddamn Quictions ...  |
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Hotel Utopia
That declaration—at once ironic and sincere, a pronouncement of defiance and of unity, seasoned with a delicious ...
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The Tale of Tommy Twice
What story, description, narrative isn’t ultimately a flawed misrepresentation of something organic, something living? ... |
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The Rabbi's Husband
Thought-provoking and insightful in its focus on characters coming to terms with who they really are, what they value most, how they see themselves fitting into the world ...
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The Frantic Force
It's hard to believe such idealistic liberals maintained their infinite suspension through these last few years of national depression both economic and emotional ...
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Love Slave
Characters trying to live authentic, purposeful lives, lives that are examined and deliberate, to the concept of “freaks” – oddballs, pariahs, self-exiled loners ... |
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Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Therefore, I read Joseph Anton primarily its portrait of Rushdie as a “teller of tales, a creator of shapes, a maker of things that were not ..."
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How to Say Goodbye
The narrator has a sense of ironic distance that gives us the clue to how to behave. He keeps his head down, keeps crawling ...
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Autumn's Only Blood
The spider lily, which blooms abundantly in the American South in autumn is a transplant from Southeast Asia, a flower full of the potent symbolism of tragedy ...
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The Freak Chronicles
The flip side of this spiritual groping is the fear of inauthenticity. Are they just going through the motions, not really a part of the social fabric? ...
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Could You Be with Her Now
Born in 1940 when women were basically raised to be married, she’d always wanted to be a concert pianist but instead was more or less pushed by her mother into a secure, loveless marriage ...
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Cannoli Ganster
Those forks and knives – those memories – keep jabbing and poking Nicoletti’s consciousness throughout the volume ...
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Quictions
To Merced College
by Yu-Han Chao
Then there’s the student who begs to not be dropped from the class because otherwise she cannot afford her upcoming surgery and will die and her blood will be on the instructor’s hands ...
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Quictions
Girl Trouble
by Robin Billings
She tore into me then with her big loud voice, saying no, no, that was a mistake. It was not easier just turning left. ...
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Mark Nipple: My Life in Prime Numbers
by Robert Bagnall
ItI fired my depth charges into B1 followed by C1, D1, E1 and F1. All in a line, just to make absolutely sure ...
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Counting
by Mike Lee
Ten years later, two kids, and a fine line drew him to midtown Manhattan and magazine illustrations pitched and purchased ...
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Empty
by Mark Person
Ever since Aubrey left home to pursue life on the road with his band, Mark had had the growing suspicion that his life had become so much unfocused clutter, that the family home was nothing but a warehouse ...
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The Family Man
by Jerry Mulligan
She slept in the bed tied up to a small crescent of monitors which spewed out an endless list of paper facts...
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Girl 2, 5, or 7
by Eric D. Goodman
I like all eight varieties of tea and the coffee too, so I tend to wait to see what she’s having before I make my choice and pretend it’s my favorite. That sort of solidarity brings us closer together ...
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Discount
by Caryn Coyle
Yup, I can see that damn braid now. It does go pretty far down his back. Why in the hell does he think that looks good? ...
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