Volume 7 Number 1

The Corn

The corn bled for a long time. Doctors came. Then priests. The blood never seeped through green. People knew it was bleeding. They swore they…

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Teeth

The alligator was known for its teeth mostly, but by teeth, people meant the whole mouth, but really the jaw, but jaws don’t sell tickets…

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Segment

Beside the stove we ate an orange. Your fingers peeled the pith in one slender sleeve, and it curled in the palm of your hand….

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The River of Discard

Something bad has happened upriver, and black tar swims down to them like baby eels. It has claimed the lives of two young swimmers, lovers,…

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Pink Nude #1, 1974

The smell of linseed through the floorboards made it easy to believe he was still down in his studio. She heard his knives on the…

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Lunch

The new vet’s head is a balloon at the fair, inflating in the fold of the break room door. She shrinks to see me, humming…

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Water Pressures

Again I lose the soap in the world’s dirtiest bathtub. My mother rests her head on the edge of the tub, her head the only…

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Up in the Air

You were last seen falling off the face of the planet. The crocuses had just started to bloom. My therapist says I have trouble stringing…

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From When He Comes Home from The War: When His Parents Have Gone to Sleep

When his parents have gone to sleep, * sneaks out the back door and around to the carport. He opens the trashcan into which he…

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From When He Comes Home from The War: He Wakes Up to His Mother’s Screams

* wakes up to his mother’s screams. He rushes outdoors and sees her standing on their wooden porch a few steps above a five-foot black…

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