Posts Tagged ‘ VI.V ’

The Artist & the Alchemist, Kevin C. Smith

Feb 20th, 2008 | By

They were saying that I’d lost my edge. After ten years the angst and dread that had infused my early paintings and established my, rather tenuous, notoriety in the art world had largely dissipated. Not wanting to repeat myself after my early success I, naturally, sought other more mature modes of expression and arrived at

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“Suitcase Blues,” by Christopher Hivner

Feb 20th, 2008 | By

Ronnie MacKenzie’s gangly body tripped across his bedroom giddily. When he reached the closet, he flung open the door and grabbed hold of his old suitcase that Grandpa Angus had brought over from the old country. The black color was terribly faded now, and the metal pieces were showing rust, but in the end, how

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“Instructions for Reading This Story,” by Sarah Salway

Feb 20th, 2008 | By

1. Do not assume that just because the story ends with the man and the woman not living happily ever after that the author has problems in her own relationships. 2. A cat can sometimes be just a cat. It is not necessarily a metaphor for death, or motherhood, or even Derrida’s theory of Difference.

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“Clues Blues,” by Wakman111

Feb 20th, 2008 | By

Presenting: The Defenestrati, a crowd-created Defenestration comic.



“Three Peas Suite,” by Burton Earny

Feb 20th, 2008 | By

(Click to Englarge) ———— Burton Earny was once born under the midnight sky, but it was deemed unsafe as the sky has no support beams. As such, they rescheduled his birth for the next Wednesday and decided a hospital would be better. The hospital had to cancel as it was going out that night with

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