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“I’m At My Service!!!” By Andrei Trostel

Mar 20th, 2009 | By

We have all been told through out our lives that doing volunteer work is extremely rewarding. I know that most people volunteer for small non-profit organizations, with hospitals, with the elderly, or perhaps doing things for the environment and if I wasn’t already working many, many hours a month doing my other volunteer work then

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“The Death of the Book,” by Howie Good

Mar 20th, 2009 | By

They were standing on the lawn and the driveway. He thought he saw some sneaking around the side of the house. They were chanting something. He hesitated to ask his wife what it was. It sounded like “Kill, kill, kill the book.” And were those staves they were waving? They looked like staves. Where the

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Defenestration: February 2009

Feb 20th, 2009 | By

Welcome back. The February 2009 issue of Defenestration has arrived! February is that sad time of the year when all the snowmen we hired back in December go back to their temp agency. Many of them lost weight in the past couple of months. Some of them left a little yellower than the day they

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“A Very Boring Middle Finger,” by Ricki Hunsinger

Feb 20th, 2009 | By

I am startled by a blaring honk And I see- a middle finger spring up before me. It made me want to act on nothing. It was the most boring middle finger I have ever seen; lacking in all passion and artistry. (a Monster truck on valium.) No more incredible than a blade of grass

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“Poem for a Reputable Lit Mag,” by Megan Roth

Feb 20th, 2009 | By

A thin letter from the Likely Review sits in my mailbox. I will use my scythe to exhume the letter from its holder. In the mailbox, the envelope dozes atop a coupon From Bed Bath and Beyond, a material image of sorts. Above, the clouds are clouding around me. This draws up existential questions, and

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