Volume 5 Number 2

Wet Nurse

I used to babysit for two kids who lived down the street. I was a lousy babysitter. I often fell asleep before they did. When…

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Hawk and Me

As far as I can tell, birds are not self-aware. A hawk does not think, “Maybe I should head over to that group of trees,…

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Which of the Four Seasons of The Year Appeals to You The Most? Why?

If I could, I would make you winter all the time. The planet would spin, fixed at perihelion. Oh, the irony of our winter, when…

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Gleise 581g

Harmony’s modeling program showed the distant planet as tidally locked. One side always faced its sun; the other backed onto the vast universe. Hubble shots…

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Fucking People

Two people fucking on a table, near a professional building. A person fuck- ing near a bayou. Three really big people in a car, fucking…

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Moving Day

Nothing is romantic about carrying a suitcase to the car. Dog runs between our legs, tail crooked, covering its genitals. We slide ice for it…

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Trashcan

They called me Trashcan because that’s where they’d put all their candy, when they were completely done with it, and had had their fill. They…

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This Machine

And when I say, THIS MACHINE RUINS LIVES, I don’t mean yours but of course this machine will ruin any life. That is to say…

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I Am A Monster Again

When my heart is a real thing you wear like a ring I say MY HEART IS A TOOL OF DEMOLITION. You see this is…

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Gunshot Fractures of Both Orbits

The exhibits are all dead, but there is range in their how-to, the ways they all went. We make our way through the museum, a…

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