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August 2013 Issue 20 Aug 2013 | 07:47 am
CREATIVE NONFICTION Brooklyn Zan Boko by Bani Amor Trickster Hermeneutics by Michael Shirzadian NOVEL EXCERPTS The Cristiania Pushers’ Dog Show by Per Šmidl CAT-STEALER by Simon Jacobs EXPERIMENTAL ...
Crapalachia: A Biography of Place by Scott McClanahan 19 Aug 2013 | 07:56 am
Review by Timmy Waldron In Crapalachia: A Biography of Place, Scott McClanahan, has become unstuck in time. Haunted by the ghosts of his departed loved ones, McClanahan revisits his formative years i...
The Cristiania Pushers’ Dog Show by Per Šmidl 19 Aug 2013 | 07:50 am
An except from the novel Wagon 537 Christiania Per Šmidl lived in a wagon in Copenhagen’s Christinia for two years. His autobiographical novel describes living there among people with an individual a...
Red Lips by Erica Johnson 19 Aug 2013 | 07:42 am
are accordions. They wink like swinging peep-show doors— they speak freely of small disappointments. About the author: Erica Johnson teaches literature, rhetoric, and creative writing in San D...
On This Day in History by Jamie Gaughran-Perez 19 Aug 2013 | 07:27 am
Would it make sense for there to be a well that never fills up? Take a piece of paper and write mystery on one side And humor on the other This is like a personality test If you put the words at t...
Failed Experiment in Gypsy Life by Loretta Oleck 19 Aug 2013 | 07:04 am
It was all an idea, a concept, a dream. To live the gypsy life. I packed a hunk of bread, a chunk of cheese, fig jam, peppered olives, basil leaves- my golden hair braided down my back with ribbons...
Two Poems by Patrick Williams 19 Aug 2013 | 06:59 am
Automatic Writing At our worst press conferences whatever spotlit official will pause and step back to let the wind rush over a bouquet of hot mics and roar revenge. Off screen, a thousand automa...
Brooklyn Zan Boko by Bani Amor 19 Aug 2013 | 06:51 am
SAMO Is Dead I was born at home in a Brooklyn ghetto. After arriving late, our Taína midwife passed this Nigerian belief to my Ecuadorian mother: wherever the placenta be buried, there would my soul ...
Two Prose Poems by Reem Abu-Baker 19 Aug 2013 | 06:16 am
Before That 1. Yesterday, I drove under an exit ramp and past a boy who might have been a hunchback. He curled around the edges like leaves, like paper before it burns. We were moving in the same di...
Hummels by Lily Hoang and Carmen Gimenez Smith 19 Aug 2013 | 06:11 am
Hummel #1963: Sylvia Plath Hummel Height: 3.1” Her goldilocks slither like a silk scarf around her lithe neck. She kneels, tightbodiced navy and white polka-dot dress. Her lunar hands, are poised ov...
