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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___________________ 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

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___________________ 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

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———— Megan Roth is a poet, cartoonist, and freelance writer from Birmingham, Alabama. She sells t-shirts by the sea shore at www.printfection.com/sauceontheside. The proceeds from her store fund cat food for Jada and other evil enterprises yet to be unmasked.

In Hell it is always the holidays. The cheer-drone of Christmas music Jing jing jingles through the overstocked Dust pungent grocery aisles. The bagel store is always out of whole wheat, The lunch specials always ended an hour ago, And rain sounds like an Alabama radio show. And there is coffee dripping down the side

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