Archive for June, 2010:
Growing Up Racist
“Hating an entire group of people based on what you know of their actions, is not racist,” She said with maniacal sincerity, “Only blind hatred of color, without regard to [...]
First Gate (part 4)
She was getting worse. Rubbing the bruise that had formed into a peculiar rounded spot – it branched out in rays like a warped sun – Yamamoto sat behind his [...]
Pregnancy Scare
A poem by Alan Bowles.
Saeta Hodie, Absentis Cras: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
-An obituary and a eulogy to my hairline, whom I’ll miss.
Jordan Elaine Troublefield was born March 13th, 1988 on a Sunday; his hair wouldn’t show ‘til 4 months after. Immediately [...]
Shopping Mall in Queens
A poem by Alan Bowles.
Untitled
A poem by Michael J. Horacki.
Fennizwig Lilly (part 1)
She was fat. Too fat.
Dalton Bennington felt his body breakout in a cold sweat as he watched his girlfriend Margie scanning the crowded airport for him. He’d been dreading this [...]
Piton de la Fournaise
A poem by Josh Garcia.
Ghost
I sit at my desk in the office, listening to the conversation in Connie’s cubicle. Malcolm, one of the accountants brings up a birthday party he went to over the [...]
Mouthful
Dentists’ don’t have a high suicide rate. That’s a myth. Most people think it’s true because it seems plausible and no one cares enough to research it. The dentist community [...]
The Copernican System
Perhaps the Earth is not motionless, Claudius told himself. It is a mathematically reasonable idea, but he knew that would not help him find approval. He spent a thousand breathless [...]
The Word-Hoard
Father and I sat in his study; he on his old red velvet-covered chair and I on a slippery leather armchair. It was full of books he had collected from [...]
Reassessing the Rainbow
I’m looking at a drawing. It’s scotch-taped to my daughter’s bedroom door and for this one Tate’s preferred medium is fruit-scented colored marker. She’s six. [...]
Refrigerator Organization for Dummies
You can smell it from miles away. You approach the refrigerator with foreboding caution and tentatively open the door. Suddenly, the smell has amplified; it envelops you. The Parmigiano cheese [...]
The Handsomest Place in the World
This has been the first time I’ve been in the ocean for quite some time, and it is certainly the longest period of time I’ve ever been in any body [...]
Joyce Kilmer
A little before two o’clock on a Thursday afternoon, Casey pulled off the Turnpike and into the Joyce Kilmer Service Area. She hadn’t gotten a particularly early start, but she [...]
The Genius’ Obituary
But rarely in the career of a journalist is one given the opportunity to pay tribute to an intellect so awe-inspiring, a mind so revolutionary, that its ground-breaking thought has [...]
Prescription to Keep You Here
A poem by A.E. Stopa.