February 2012
8 posts
The new issue is coming. Stay tuned.
Vol. 2 - Issue 5 [Chris Siteman]
Vol. 2 - Issue 5 [Laura Da]
Advice to a young Indian Agent:
This country will not cradle the eye.
Lope through a buffalo wallow with only your head lolling above ground like a specter. Flickering swish of your mare’s chestnut tail. Note the map: Indian Territory—no less than six times the breadth of Ohio, and who can say we failed to provide for these souls in anything less than a Christian manner? Do not neglect your...
Vol. 2 - Issue 5 [Kate Carito]
The Toy It was in the park one day That I saw a boy about four Playing with a stuffed animal toy A bunny rabbit gray with a white button nose Its color weathered from attention Probably given to him at birth By an uncle or a God-mother Years of love had left a tare at the toy’s armpit And fluffy white stuffing poured from the hole Like the contents of a heart Oblivious to the wounds The boy spun...
Vol. 2 - Issue 5 [Jesse Parent]
Guess My Name Jonathan was no beauty, at least, not physically. His spine carved his back like a path through the Black Forest. His face so gnarled and lined with boils it looked like a jar of marbles. He was a mish mash, a goblin, a thing that made children scream through the night. Jonathan loved children. Not to eat, like the sharp looking bone crags in his mouth might suggest. He longed to...
Vol. 2 - Issue 5 [Richard Binkele]
button hole You said you were a button and I a button hole and when I begged you stop you said in a minute. There are some things you don’t forget. I am one you did, but over years I have not, can not and until I tell what you did, I will always be a hole.
Vol. 2 - Issue 5 [Gus Wood]
Plaything After Chuck Palahniuk’s “Exodus”… Take me stale from the evidence locker, all weighted and unbreathing, my body lumpy with its almost flesh. Touch me, everywhere, for days. Never shower, do not wash your hands, hollow me out mess and sweat stick. I will not object. I cannot stop you. In more ways than one, I was made for this. Vessel me, disposal me perfect....
Vol. 2 - Issue 5 [Daniel Roche]