Separating the Body

Dad bit down on his cigarette as he worked a knife between the seams, the deer’s head nodding and shaking in little fits. The strips…

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Real Human Heat

takes Place outside the self by shifting energy through the face in a pro- cess called Convection. Convection, or displaced Conviction, is duplicitous. It relies…

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We Are Not Here to Have a Good Time

Outside the sky is trapped between day and night; the low clouds remind me of windswept sand. My mother, Sandra and me are waiting in…

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Art 262

When Alice was the only student not to construct a piece of campus installation art that was overtly sexual, the tenured professor asked her why….

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Excerpts from The Office Diary

they waited until the workaholics left, and the janitors collected the last of the trash. he came with a pink rose and an accordion of…

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Retort

I hate this small box. The woman handles it like a box of cereal or frozen peas. She tips it to show how well it’s…

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Predatory

A wolf ate my hands. It should have been a Bengal tiger but was colored and sleek like a pit bull. I later felt a…

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Fragmentations of Geometric Inaccuracy

One. Shape as self-sufficient and silent, sithering and song. For one day alone, we adventured to seek for symmetry in our daily life. We stared…

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Head of the Dragon

The girl loves the plastic wrapped packages of jelly dragon heads in a fishbowl at the drugstore checkout for the same reason she loves to…

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Flutter

I stole lipsticks for my cousin, Valerie, so that she would spank me more, as I asked, as I found my eight-year old body needed…

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