by Jeremy Behreandt | Feb 25, 2014 | Magazine Article
briefcases into the dinosaur, counterfactual jackals slavering centipedes in stone: that’s a fine spelunking! way to beak the ink face, gerrymander. to press always fibers between plate glass, a way to break snakeskin boots in! swiftly, madeleine, that’s an unzippered...
by C. Kubasta | Feb 25, 2014 | Magazine Article
Griselda waits. Child eater. Good wife. The stories we are told as childrenleave mute tethers, limning the interiorof grey matter, the hollowed synapse. I remember Thumbelina: I too was small; prey-mate to mouse, mole.I remember Bluebeard: I too was curious; opening...
by Joshua Gottlieb-Miller | Feb 25, 2014 | Magazine Article
clone keeps a diaryclone writes in codeclone taunts me We’d moved halfway across the country, clone says, my wife and I, I hadn’t yet been firedand she undiagnosed, after I walked her to work I wandered past the lake, a marching bandat practice, drums in the wind and...
by Max Garland | Feb 25, 2014 | Magazine Article
A year ago I was doing what any sane adult does on a sub-zero night in Eau Claire: sharing a plate of fried cheese curds and ordering a second round at Houligan’s. When my cell phone went into spasms for the fourth time, I stepped over to the coat rack, and among...
by John Lehman | Feb 20, 2014 | Magazine Article
I grew up in Chicago. And whenever I meet someone else from there, I feel like we have an immediate connection. We may never explore the reason for this connection, explore the experiences we share. All we know is that we did share them, and that makes us different...