Volume 7 Number 1

Icarus Hits the Water Laughing

Once a week after store hours, I take the navy rubber bands off all the Maines and let them loose in the labyrinth. The lobsters…

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Summer

You are playing with the neighbor girl Sharon, whose parents are pack- rats, so you always have to play outside. You would prefer to be…

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Again Tonight–

the floor is swimming in mice, their brown silky backs waving toward the bedroom door, a solid mass of them running for the opening. They…

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My Inheritance, My Heritage

Uncle Lowell invited me to follow him into the bathroom. He reached up high into the medicine cabinet and pulled down an old tube of…

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Sleeping Jesus

I was trapped in the other tomb. The one where Jesus forgot to wake up. Slept in so late with a new body too bright…

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The Sky Father Gang

Experimenting with black crystal is what drove The Sky Father Gang into the city, wide-eyed and tongue-out. Demonstration of madness. Neon insanity. Boys and girls…

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Running English

He said if you wanted to learn English you could run with him in the mornings. Then they followed him in droves. Every morning the…

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The Opposite of Matter?

Mothers: your body holds onto cells from your baby after you give birth. These cells pass through the placenta and some of them will wander…

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Stop Boring the Ghost Who Might Haunt You

Do the crossword out loud. Read two-minute mysteries into the air, but put down the book and take a bath so she has time to…

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Blue

We are in a museum of natural history, and I am taking photographs of my brother taking photographs of skeletons strung up against Bristol-bottle- blue…

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