Bill Yarrow
GETTING GODLESS I. God is man squared. That is to say, God is man raised to a higher power. Man is the root, the square root, of God. We believe in the ideal (truth, wisdom, justice, honor, integrity,...
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Some love stories 1. My mother tells me sex is when penis is in a vagina, but she says she doesn’t know how or why. She says it is one way and then another. She says she will ask my father how it...
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Gracias, Pero Si An old woman with a face as colonial as the town hands you a cold drink brewed with corn and she tells you in Spanish how she knows you are an American because you only speak English...
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The Chameleon Kid listen to this story The chameleon kid is standing beside a tree. Nobody can see the chameleon kid because, in a sense, he has become that tree. The grainy bark, the knots, even the...
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What the American Public Wants Sylvia Pincus could not tell her daughter, Daphne, that she still watched Late Night with George Rockland, but she felt justified: It was a way of working through her...
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Notes on a Clean River There’s no reason for the old man to weigh in; he’s looking out the window, toward the lake slicked nicely with nutrients: he’s not concerned with who they are or where they’ve...
View ArticleKeith Rosson
AT THIS TABLE The table is in a restaurant in a building that was built in 1885. The building was remodeled in 1915 and again in 1952 after it was found that a broken sewage pipe had been weakening the...
View ArticleLaura Read
Salt of the Earth All the way from Spokane to Omaha, meat-packing capitol of the nation, I study my legs, tan from laying out in the yard. Before I left, my mother made me apply mustache removal cream,...
View ArticleTia Prouhet
Falcon Street Marcy says he loves you, you know and I nod because it’s easier than telling her she’s wrong. I can see it, she says. Marcy is two years older and got her period the summer before me. She...
View ArticleJohnsie Noel
TO UNDERSTAND STRING THEORY At the ages of six and nine we understood simply the ‘theory of everything.’ The 11th dimension was condensed down to – a ball of twine unwound, vibrating secrets strung...
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Ansley Moon
Gift Gift’s mother left when he was only five years old. One day she was everywhere in their house, her perfume filling even the crevices where his marbles rolled. And the next she was gone....
View ArticleKyle Minor
The Cruel Father, Learning that He Is About to Be Killed by His Son, Puts to Death All Children Born to Him He kept a catalog of women’s eyes. Not just green, brown, blue, or hazel, but the shapes of...
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Tiger Town listen to this story We stood whistling on the town beach. A few miles down, a dead tiger washed up on the sand. The crowd gathered around the tiger had swollen to the dunes by the time...
View ArticleChris Erickson
from Henrytown QUEEN MOTHER BRARD AND HER MALE HELPER drove into Danville to the Bonanza. She kept making a big deal about being there. She put their meals on her Senior Club Card. Her helper went into...
View ArticleTim Dicks
Poem Written While Receiving Oral Sex This isn’t working. I can’t think she said. Her voice was too flat and he would be disappointed. My thoughts aren’t connecting she said. She meant the threads...
View ArticleAlana Dakin
FLESH AND BLOOD Lydia has a body made of bones. Her ribs are candy canes sucked clean by the puckered lips of a child, her limbs hard and white like the naked branches of a sycamore. Lots of people ask...
View ArticleSara Crowley
In July John’s cock was a hot poker. In, in, in, in. July grimaced and bit lip, drew blood there as well as there. Afterwards she foetal curled while he sweet whispered soothing. “It’ll get better. The...
View ArticleStace Budzko
Beautiful Retards That Friday you are met by a pool full of retards: downs kids so broken some wear helmets. Prior to this day your mother and you go to the Y to deal with her post aneurism weakness,...
View ArticleRachel Adams
Sex and the American Rabbit Lapin When they were young, they took the male and female rabbit out of their separate cages and set them in the bright wet spring grass. The rabbits, young as well, were...
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