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"Olfactory Hues" by Daniel Isaiah Elder 27 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm

When summers at the dacha come to mind, the memories are scattershot. I like when they surface, but I don't hold on to any of the fragments for too long. Not because anything unpleasant went on there;...

"Reading Thomas Aquinas" by P.R. Mercado 27 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm

If you loved me the way I love you, I would cause you misery so pure you can collect it with your hands, smear it on the walls, drink it to wake you up in the morning, or keep you from sleeping a...

"My Right Arm" by Con Chapman 27 Aug 2013 | 06:27 pm

I meant it when I said it. I still mean it. And that smart-ass kid twists it and thinks it's funny. What the hell would he know, the punk. I'll show him--I'll push so much ice through the chute tonigh...

"3 Good Hubcaps" by Jerry Ratch 27 Aug 2013 | 07:57 am

Parked at the curb in front of the church an old black hearse that looked like it had been used too many times with 3 good hubcaps, one with writing on it that said: “Possession of the punk band: ....

"I Had a Dream or Maybe I Was Just Thinking about Licking Your Back" by brian warfield 27 Aug 2013 | 07:24 am

I think about your person and your body I think about the you of you Your completehood How I want to be integrated Fully enmeshed like Your hair I find entwined in my shoelaces I think about yo....

"How I Lost the War" by Hemrod Mcdowd 27 Aug 2013 | 05:41 am

My Imaginary-John-Lennon-Friend insisted on using my head for a soccer ball, untaped and unreplaced once he decided the game was ...

"THE HANDSHAKE ABOUT GOD" by Wolfe Pangs 27 Aug 2013 | 04:52 am

1)   The melody she sings to me is always in the key of g major, and maybe if the slugging weight of her body against the will of god had a face and a name I could find a better shape that would suit ...

"Good Help Is Hard to Find" by Michael Gillan Maxwell 27 Aug 2013 | 04:15 am

Some of them are notorious tweakers. Nobody epitomizes the cowboy-outlaw biker more than the ironworkers, who are wired on Black Beauties they sell on breaks. Bulldozers rumble over loose red soil, ....

"Graven Images" by Jodi Barnes 27 Aug 2013 | 12:53 am

Mother hated a crucifix. Graven, she said. Evidence that Catholics weren't saved, just stuck in ceremony. Jesus had risen and anyone who had to pray in Latin, count beads or confess to robed men who t...

"SEIZE" by Eric Boyd 27 Aug 2013 | 12:12 am

        “You're right by the mall, the cultural district, and just a few minutes from downtown,” the realtor smiled. “And it's on a bus line?” the wife asked. “Yes it is!” “...

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