Volume 8 Number 1

Rumored

That the local supermarket is now haunted by my uncle’s ex-wife, that when she burned up in the parking lot all those years ago, her…

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Ohio Portrait no. 500

My beloved sister bought a dollar-coin-sized turtle from a mall kiosk. The salesman pulled the creature out from a drawer under the display; the box…

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The Growing Bones

Every night he dreamt of babies—doll sized babies that wiggled and cried, then shrunk in his arms until they were only almonds in the dip…

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Pinky

Like a girl, says my uncle about the way I hold my coffee, my small finger hooked in a J. Cool as I can, I…

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Dream Lover

For seven straight nights, Annette dreams she has a sexual relationship with a centaur named Harold. Despite his hooves, his great unknowability, the fact that…

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Quantum Leap

Sam Beckett—the time-traveling scientist portrayed by a young Scott Bakula—travels through time and leaps into your body Sam Beckett travels back through time and leaps…

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Old Silver Hair – IV (from Brian Awesome)

The parameters of this bed are all wrong, Old Silver Hair yells out. The room is calm, so she shakes her feet free of her…

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Old Silver Hair – II (from Lucy Corin)

Theirs was not the most luxurious of bathrooms, but they had three. Old Silver Hair went into the first—clearly Pappa Bear’s—and she had to use…

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Old Silver Hair – I (from Kirsten Lunstrum)

In the California king, Old Silver Hair turns her face into the swell of the pillow. It is too grand. In the queen, Old Silver…

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Gravity

For the first hour the prevailing mood was one of disbelief. People thought it was a dream, a metaphor, maybe. But it didn’t pass: gravity…

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