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Issue IV, Volume III

(Andrew and Eileen are America's best hope for an ice dancing medal. Best of luck.)

POETRY

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Mike Brown. "I love you. Seriously."  

 

Holly Day. "“First Time” and “More Things I Didn’t Want To Know” ."

 

Ally Harris. "bike ride 1."

 

Quentin B. Huff. "Sister. "

PROSE

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Doohinkus. "A Letter to Mrs. Sally Struthers’s Coffee for Kids Organization or Some Variant Thereof.

When Tom Cruise brought a sonogram machine for his pregnant fiancée Katie Holmes home, he also brought with it the truth about the happiness of rational social beings.

 

 

John Ellingsworth. "An Interview with Spike Lee."


Award-winning director Spike Lee talks to John Ellingsworth about his upcoming film, the angry lesbian recidivist melodrama Nuns in the Hood.

 

 

Larry Gaffney. "Invitation."

Dear Mr. Cheney:

It is my great honor to invite you to a complementary weekend of hunting at Sportsman’s Paradise, a private game preserve located in the lush fields and rolling hills of central Arkansas. 

   

 

Allison Landa. "Tragic Estates."

Tragic Estates is a different kind of real estate development. We don't offer a community pool or spa, charge homeowners' dues, or shield our property with iron gates, brass-topped, sharp points making sure that should you try to tumble over our gilded line, you won't be doing it again.

 

 

Brian G. Ross. "Carpet Burned." 

My wife flipped through the carpet catalogue—page after furry page—hovering over some, quickly bypassing others. Every now and then she licked her thumb and touched it to the shagpile, as if she was reading one of her Jackie Collins novels.

 

Malerie Yolen-Cohen. "A Less-Than-Remarkable Life" 

David Sedaris, once said that he felt sorry for people who thought that unless they came from poverty or horrid conditions, they had nothing to write about—that “they thought that their whole life was worthless because it was less than remarkable.”  

VISUALS

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Leslie Lee. "Eyes and Fingers and Stuff."

 

Jeremiah Stansbury. "Monkey Bars." 

 

 

 

 


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