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Issue XII, Volume II

(Everyone dress up! The police are coming, and they can't see under the greasepaint!)

POETRY

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Simon Bradley. "A Trilogy of Poems Written Sometime in High School ." ADULT

 

Jane Pupek. "In the Museum of Natural History ."

 

Megan Volpert. "the seven habits of highly effective graduate students."

PROSE

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John Borneman. "Bee Careful."

"Pituitaries are not known for being tasty."

 

Jon Alan Carroll. "Talking Hedge."


He is a giant.

 

S. E. Diamond. "Darwin's Turtle." 

You make my grandma seem young.

 

David Gaffney. "You know, quiet."

The room he was given had seven wardrobes. Seven.

   

Jeremy Yeatts Hopkins. "God Dies Laughing: A Conversation with Broken Hammer."

At this meeting (which, having recently received word of his death amidst complications in Eastern Europe, I can say with some confidence will go down as our last) we discussed the Death of God and his suggestion of one possible cause.

 

Ryan Nemeth. "The Panther." 

You’re all I could ever hope for. There is nothing about you I would change.  Absolutely nothing. Ok, maybe one thing.

 

Victor Schwartzman. "Literary Illusions." 

An author, labouring under the delusion that he knew how others would read and understand what he was creating, decided one day to ask the delusion to leave, given he believed that he was not deluded to begin with.

 

VISUALS

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Erin Bryant. "Tender and Succulent." 

 

R. Roberts-Mesta. "Spiritus frugi." 

 

 


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