Volume 4 Number 2

The Neighbors

On a cold, dead street in the suburbs of Detroit, with your kids at their mother’s, in the house you can’t sell, between Christmas and…

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Pure Greg Louganis

Mrs. L—it was her party—all dolled up, nipping, one eye on the window, rushed into the foyer when anyone arrived telling whomever to—quick— go into…

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The Magician

He sawed her down the middle and lifted a section out. It was no trick: he gave the bloody piece, spleen, appendix, gallbladder, to a…

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For Tourists Such As Yourself

Poland loves you, but you never come to Poland. Why is that? We are a big nation. We contain mindful, thriving people. We’ve become safe…

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Seagulls

I went to the deck and wrote, “Not a bad ship,” on the curtains of the restaurant. It had been raining all night, and my…

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Exodus

It’s a squeeze onto the ships; there are arms and legs everywhere. The queues at the bars are eight deep, and there’re whole families shouting…

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there is a time in every young man’s life when he must kill a snake

there was a heat wave one summer and things were frying outside people feared the air spread cureless fever and bolted their doors one night…

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i felt ‘machiavellian’ this morning when i slithered out of bed

i looked through my bedroom window and thought ‘machiavelli’ and i whispered ‘machiavelli’ then swallowed and felt ambivalent i pictured myself dressing and walking in…

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Bicycle

A friend of mine told me a story about her twin sister Mary, who was over- weight. She went to see her family doctor. He…

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Time

I am a history professor. Last night I had a strange dream. The government had invented a time machine, but there was a problem—it could…

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