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Myriam Gendron
For one tune she switched into a distorted electric guitar. “I used to be in a metal band,” she said. The audience laughed. “It’s true,” she said.
Editors’ Letter 4: Kenneth Rexroth’s Tombstone
“Poignant means stabbing--we forget that these days”
Stupid Black Bull in the Dark
I'm afraid to hurt someone. Why would I hurt someone for no reason? I'd rather sit around and gossip. But I don't feel ashamed to be totally exhausted by life.
The American Dream/Fear of Cars
In fact, what you really need is a minivan—one that will fit your four kids on a hot day while you drive in circles at the mall. But you can’t go in yet, only quiet children get to shop.
Christmas in Pariang
Correspondence on the civil war in South Sudan.
"Knowledge for knowledge’s sake is not a meaningful posture in a warzone."
A Few Bedtime Stories
For years, Raf collected the pieces of balloon left behind from his brothers' pranks.
Vitalina
a Greek chorus
their heads turned down
—the welcoming crew
Our Last Summer
Death is fake, and time has collapsed! Ghosts of 1979 intrude on the present and they all do karaoke together.
The Green Woman
Tell me, do they wear dark suits, and do they brandish sage and sticks of rowan when encountering a spirit?
Sanibel Island
I was enamored with her wrestling skills and talent for catching lizards (mostly Six-line Racerunners, I think).
The Typewriter
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"Don't you think people can be cruel because of the narrowness of their point of view and failure to consider others?"
"No."
Minutes from The Forum, Fall 2020
The “little university on the green sod” where hundreds gathered then tens, then a handful
Who Is a Bird
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I am slipping in and out of myself like a fish
Sex is Something that We Need to Promote
I have no guy to satiate my pussy well. Hope dies last.
Notes from the Cave: No Exit
He seems rather meek for a contract murderer, but what do I know — he is the first one I’ve ever met.
Observations and Inferences Regarding the Curious Residents of Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Island of nerds and simps. I fear you will never break the cycles you came here to escape.
The Death Slide
Th' next act, folks, will be the death slide. The real thing. You won't go away disappointed. We kill a man every performance.