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    Archives - Posts written in August, 2008
  • Defenestration: Back With A Vengeance! Welcome to the August 2008 issue of Defenestration. It’s new and improved and deemed fit for human consumption by the Guild of Literary Magazines and ...
    [August 20th by Defenestration]
  • “On William Butler Yeats”, by Sean Raune 1. Yeats walks into a room backwards and turns slowly. 2. Yeats likes the suspense of the thing. 3. Upon turning, Yeats will say, "Hi, fuckers!" and ...
    [August 20th by Defenestration]
  • “A-Loan”, by Alison Burke Money should be used for useful things: pants-less man servants, spinning rims, and perhaps a gold and diamond encrusted pizza. Money therefore should not be ...
    [August 20th by Defenestration]
  • “Hot Air”, by Diane Gallant The life of a balloonist is a life of adventure, and as I have the stout heart of an adventurer, I have chosen this life ...
    [August 20th by Defenestration]
  • “Hell” and “Tosser” by John Peck Hell (from The Fall, Camus, tr. Justin O’Brien) I am an immaculate skeleton. I smell of dead leaves and furniture wax. I prostitute gulls with the help of ...
    [August 20th by Defenestration]
  • “Are You the Right Photographer for Me?”, by Jeff Crouch and Christopher Woods   ___________________ Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. Google "Jeff Crouch" to see where he has been.   Christopher Woods lives in Houston and in ...
    [August 20th by Defenestration]
  • “Poems Composed Upon Accidentally Shaving Off My Beard and Not Accidentally Growing It Back” by John Pierce My beard Spreading eternally over the surfaces of my face The wide plains, the rolling hills, the tiniest crevices. Never ceasing to grow. Except for that one time when ...
    [August 20th by Defenestration]
  • “Astrology for the Bitter”, by Jon Alan Carroll Aries (March 21-April 19): The manuscript you toiled over for five grueling years is now being returned by a bored receptionist. Give up. Taurus (April 20-May ...
    [August 20th by Defenestration]
  • “9-Square Championship”, by Danny Purvis COLUMBIA, South Carolina – Thirty of the world's top tic-tac-toe masters converged here to contest the first ever World Tic-Tac-Toe Championship. Two days later, on ...
    [August 20th by Defenestration]
  • “Ventriloquist Dummy”, by Wakman111 the-defenestrati-wakman111-ventriloquist-dummy This is a flash comic. Click for the awesomeness. ____________________ White knuckling a pencil since the womb, Wakman111 has pushed out comics faster than his eraser’s lifespan. ...
    [August 20th by Defenestration]
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