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Prelude to Eggs
It would be a nice thing to do to make the eggs. Fry them and then tap drops of hot sauce onto the yolk and laugh because it makes me think of nipple pimples. It would be nice to make nipple pimple eggs and whole-wheat toast and coffee for two. I made my mother scrambled pancakes on her birthday and mother’s day and sometimes the fourth of July. Scrambled because I couldn’t flip. Scrambled as in all over the stove and the floor and the ceiling somehow, as I ignored the mess and plated my creation. “Scrambled
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Staples
Dig it out from under fires. The bread, thin, hard as blades, eaten when and while saturated. Mutton juice. Seepage of marrow. South of Paris, a wild rumor of leavened loaves white as mice. Still, rye becomes the tonic, rising from its station. Bad blood (plenty) scavenged with wheat. New dawn artichoke held high. A mutant thistle. Just wait: potatoes.
Fruit-Vegetable-Nut Meats
Senlis boasts rare cabbages exhaling perfume headier than musk. Soup it. Ferment it. Rub a leaf behind an ear and lean toward unwashed suitors. Melons appear. Currants too, black, black and painful red. Cucumbers, plentiful, and
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They are standing together at the station. It would seem their lives are traveling in the same direction. But this is not that story. You could probably guess how long they’ve been at each other’s throats. They wanted to be joyful, but happiness eluded them. So this is their good-bye. Suddenly, he vanishes. (He is no longer on stage in this reenactment.) She is seen alone in compartment C, Car 293, wearing a wide-brim hat, reading a book about the artist, Edward Hopper.
In the next scene, a strange woman enters the compartment, holding a whip and a pair of
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Listen to a reading of “Like a Spilled Purse: A Theft” by Johannes Lichtman.
1 You believed that old men know more than young men; that life will break your heart; that death is the vantage point from which a life must be seen. There was something you needed that you never found, and you must have died horribly unsatisfied.
2 I don’t know how to make myself an education out of anything, even those things that I love best in life. I read very fast, uncritically, and without retention, seeking only to escape from my own life through the
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Reading Comprehension 23: Action Figures Once, he was more powerful than a locomotive, this last son of Krypton. He rescued damsels from the clutches of mechanical geniuses in outer space. And defended the American Way in a time when the sky was bigger and candy tasted sweeter. The world is oblivious to special powers, so his frail alter-ego fills a fortress of solitude with trophies of better days. A tiny city in a bottle. A broken robot. The brittle stem of a dandelion. Trophies keep the world secure. These are sentimental dangers. He now stands five-inches tall, his face frozen
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Listen to a reading of “Table 2.1 From the Amateur Scientist’s Notebook” by Jesse DeLong.
Read “Table 2.1 From the Amateur Scientist’s Notebook” by Jesse DeLong [PDF]
About the author:
Jesse DeLong lives in Tuscaloosa, AL. His work can be found or is forthcoming from Nano Fiction, The Offending Adam, Copper Nickel, 751 Magazine, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Tearings, and Other Poems, was released by Curley Head Press. Check out him reading from it at: http://www.slashpinepress.com/2011/03/jesse-delong-arcade-reading/
Read “Gmail – Inbox – richard.lee@gmail.com” by Erik Doughty [PDF]
Erik Doughty
About the Author:
Erik Doughty is an Asian American writer from New Jersey. His work was recently published in Stymie Magazine and is forthcoming in Annalemma. He lives in Boston working as an editor at Digi-Block, Inc. and carries a notebook, air guitar, and inhaler with him wherever he goes.
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She boiled a pot of water while he chopped celery and onions. “No meat,” she said. “I have.” The man unhinged his left hand and tossed it into the pot. “Did you wash?” He shook his head and bled a pint of blood into the soup. “For texture.” The woman peered into the soup. Electrical currents she hadn’t felt in her twenty-eight years buzzed from her cortex down her spinal cord into her pelvis. She lifted her left hand to his lips. He kissed the back of her hand before unhinging it and
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Read “Nameless, TN” by Heather Luby [PDF]
Heather Luby
About the author:
Heather Luby is really nothing more than a girl from the Ozark Mountains that grew up with dreams of writing stories. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Citron Review, Travel by the Books, Annotation Nation and a few other little places too. She holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and is currently feverishly revising her novel Laws of Motion. When not conversing with the characters of her imagination, she can found wrangling two willful and beautiful daughters around the suburbs of St. Louis,
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