Archive for September, 2008
Defenestration: September 2008
Welcome to the September 2008 issue of Defenestration, the only literary magazine to be voted Undisputed King of the Interwebs by almost one-third of our staff! This month features the poetry of Arlene Ang and Paul Giles; prose by Bryson Newhart and Hank Kirton; and visuals by Megan Roth and the Christopher Woods/Jeff Crouch “power [...]
“Beware of God”, by Megan Roth
___________________ Megan Roth is a writer and cartoonist recently transplanted Miami. Her first book, The Green Guide to Daily Living, will be available from Cliff Road Books and Amazon.com in November, 2008. She sells t-shirts at www.clikfish.com, and plays the piano tipsy and shoeless for a chorus of stuffed snowmen and feline companions on those [...]
“Looking for Band”, 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 Chappell Hill, Texas. It is in the latter place that he hears coyotes cry at night. He doesn’t mind them as much as the occasional skunk that shows [...]
“‘Psych-Out (1968)’ Starring Susan Strasberg”, by Hank Kirton
She woke up groping for her name, she woke up deaf. The room surrounded her. Piles of clothes, blankets and empty wine bottles lay strewn across a warped wooden floor. She stood up, holding the wall for balance and, to test her hearing, yelled, “Hey!” She felt the word form and fly but couldn’t hear [...]
“This space intentionally left blank.” by Paul Giles
quiet shock of history eaten by train light breaks the coke machine this city’s anesthetic no change left poems rained all well that’s changed day sorry couldn’t everything give me find my umbrella back my undies blinking acid eyes found my liver home stopped me in that smarties in its tracks pack thank god regret pulled my o didn’t i [...]
“Genesis” and “About Your Bucket’”, by Arlene Ang
Genesis On the seventh day, God created ugly underwear. He went bankrupt; Adam and Eve offered each other their bad breath by eating an apple. They kissed for the first time. God did his arithmetic. For reasons of debt, He decided that the first man and first woman could take only two sons outside the [...]
“Brief History of Horn City”, by Bryson Newhart
Landscape By establishing a team of engineers within the city limits, each confined to a mattress surrounded by a high seawall, the mattresses connected by a network of bridges designed to encroach upon individual private properties, allowing the engineers, whenever they were awake, to patrol specific homes and bungalows to ensure compliance with mandatory nature [...]
“Fly Away” by Andrew Kaye
———— Contrary to what you may think, AK is not a state.
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