Issue #2: All Creatures, Gemma Cooper-Novack
All Creatures Ellie and I were seven-year-old animal rights activists, passionate city kids with nowhere to turn but our own gerbils and salamanders and the pigeons in the park. We […]
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Issue #2: My Cabin Never Leaks When It Doesn’t Rain, Gemma Cooper-Novack
My Cabin Never Leaks When It Doesn’t Rain If you’ve learned one thing from a lifetime in America it’s probably that the nation is full of corners. That it’s easy […]
Issue #2: Rant is a word I’ve learned, Shana Bulhan Haydock
Rant is a word I’ve Learned I. on the scale of -13 to 640, how sure are you of your safety? i would like to tell you this came to […]
Issue #2: Boston Pigeon Pier, Michael F. Gill
– Boston Pigeon Pier Dear Pigeon, Thank you for visiting me on my underwater lunch break. I can not help but wonder if your flagrant obesity was your own choice, or […]
Issue #2: Allston, Michael F. Gill
–A Resident of Allston, Massachusetts In between groans and guffaws that mimic a dial tone and Yoko Ono strangling each other, Big Red is telling one of the hemp-scented girls […]
Issue #2: Nana, Marisa Glynn
I hope my grandmother dies before I get married. I have said this many times, how it stings like a bug zapper in my chest. A flicker of guilt before […]
Issue #2: for my hometown, William James
The Season of the Clean Kill for my hometown – Trees bow their heads under the weight of snow like church elders steeped in prayer, their heavy limbs aching with […]
Issue #2: FOR ETHYL, LOT 12, William James
– For Ethyl, Lot 12 who rarely left her trailer, unless it was to yell at us neighborhood kids again—this time, the errant kickball splatted wetly against her bedroom window, […]
Issue #2: 7/19/96, 5:36am – William James
7/19/96, 5:36am The waterline rises, & a siren jolts the neighborhood awake with its howling. The sun is still crying, hasn’t stopped in days, you wonder if something broke its […]
Issue #2: division, beyza ozer
division april 20, 1995 beyza lale ozer meaning: pure & white my mom looks down at me “gökten melek” meaning: angel from heaven my mother never had a second thought […]
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