The Cobalt Weekly

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#116: Fiction by Laura J Morris

Spatch-Cock’d I stuff the chicken. One hand up and under its skin. My fingers pushing the soft buttery mixture between its skin and flesh, massaging,…

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#115: Erasure Poems by Justin Hamm

Sources Like a horse: Erasure from “The Dead,” James Joyce, Dubliners  Her name was: Erasure from “Araby,” James Joyce, Dubliners  Justin Hamm’s most recent book…

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#113: Poems by John Dorsey

HARRY DEAN STANTON CHANGES THE OIL FOR SID HAIG this is the motorcycle movie that roger corman never madea country on firefull of slow rolling…

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#109: Fiction by Krissi Stocks

MOUNTAIN ASH Iris was determined. She would stay here until her fingers froze and her lips turned blue. A nine-year-old popsicle. She remembered reading a…

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#108: Nonfiction by Joanne Furio

YOU ARE MY CANDY GIRL “I want a quarter pound of nonpareils!”  She was my grandmother’s age. Wore the same cat’s eyeglasses and navy polka-dot dress.…

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#107: Nonfiction by David James

ELEVATOR OPERATORS AND PILOTS We were cruising west under a moonless dome of stars against the usual nighttime flow of heavy traffic bound for Europe. Our…

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#105: Poetry by Peycho Kanev

WHEN WINTER COMES… The skyanother kind of skyand so is the light seepingover hereabove the plains coveredin snowlike a sheet of plain white paper,there lies…

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#104: Nonfiction by Michael Zimecki

RADIUM MAN Ebenezer MacBurney Byers delighted in telling everyone, especially his female friends, that he was radioactive. “I’ll make you glow,” he said to every…

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