Category: Issues
Hell or Antarctica
Nemo travelled on the boat for days. He remembered it was the smaller man, the one called Peccadillo, who with a bored and unsatisfied air of ennui, flicked his cheek with a sharpened fingernail, and slapped it just to make ...
Rope Swing
She couldn’t take one more turn on the old rope swing Steve had put up when they first learned they were expecting. Like buying a football and a new tricycle, it meant there was a future, that there would be ...
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Einstein’s Riddle 20XX
Einstein wrote a riddle that only 2% of the population could solve, by his math. This should be even easier. No trick questions, just trickiness: Five dwellings sit west to east at the outermost fringe of the city. Each Home is ...
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Publisher Series, Vol. 5: Mud Luscious Press
Cobalt: Tell us a little bit about Mud Luscious Press. How did you get started? What do you publish, in a nutshell? Do you publish books that can fit in a nutshell? J. A. Tyler: Mud Luscious Press started as an ...
Issue 7: Spring 2013
Poetry Elizabeth Bodi | Family History Elizabeth Bodi | Tundra Courtney Hitson | A Sort of Green Courtney Hitson | In Michigan, My Father James Cook | from First Requiem of the Ghost Animals Kevin Heaton | A Peruvian Priest in Kansas Kevin Heaton | A Penguin's Lament Fiction Estela ...
A Peruvian Priest in Kansas
Father Giovanni Maria Augustini The spirit-keeperswere gone—their children were gone—lichen covered the cross arms of a carved canyon crucifix, and exposed the Kansas plains to sin on three sides. A trio of shaman made shards of red-clay people hoveled in a cave, in a valley with ...
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Family History
When my stomach hurt, my mother would sit me on the edge of the bathtub and get a needle and thread from the sewing basket. She’d tie the thread tight around my thumb, a tourniquet between the two joints. When ...
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Sweating Vietnam
Dr. Ransom, the town's physician, removed the blood pressure cuff from my arm and wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with a damp handkerchief. All who lived in Tuxton suffered equally the withering humidity of a Chesapeake Bay ...
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First Requiem of the Ghost Animals
to dream the apparition of a black flower, to dream the sound of a radio left on all night in an empty office building deep in a city’s guts, hovering between stations, this is an oracular dream denoting that the lost music of a girl’s name ...
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I am going to grad school and I need a part time job, and what could be more appealing than a Craigslist ad that reads, “Earn Money Teaching English from Home”? The website seems legit because it has a decent-looking ...
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