Volume 5 Number 2

Distress

You kick me out of the house for the afternoon and tell me to call you when I feel scared about something. “You’re so calm,”…

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Experiment

I’m 7’3″ so bartender draws a bead on me right when I stoop through the door, and it’s a sweltering wade through the stares and…

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Traditional Northern Sports

we bang sticks our legs run long distances bang against each other are covered in sweat soil sometimes ice there are nets where released balls…

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Puncture

Bo had been listening, waiting for the mutts to retrieve the duck, like they always did. It’d been shot in the wing—Bo knew from the…

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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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