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2 poems by Emily Paskevics

2 poems by Emily Paskevics

By • on May 21, 2012

We Were Never Lovers and we both know if it wasn’t for the vodka and that extra shot of rum you wouldn’t have walked me home, and you wouldn’t be

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Magic Time Machine Sex Machine by Sarah Sorensen

Magic Time Machine Sex Machine by Sarah Sorensen

By • on May 18, 2012

So, you win the lotto, science evolves, and some other supernatural shit happens and you score a magic time machine sex machine. This thing looks like

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3 poems by Charish Halliburton

3 poems by Charish Halliburton

By • on May 14, 2012

Searching for Marvin Gaye Wet face, tired arms, sore throat. Look at you carrying on, carrying the dead weight that Zora said you would. Put him down, he’s

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Rooftop by T.F. Rhoden

Rooftop by T.F. Rhoden

By • on May 11, 2012

The Nigerian study-abroad student sat facing her laptop, somewhat hypnotized by the cursor’s blinking metronome. Beginning an essay was always the most

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Good Morning by Ryan Nelson

Good Morning by Ryan Nelson

By • on May 7, 2012

"The Holy Grail of the Mini Wheats world" (photo by

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Bulbs by Leah Kaminsky

Bulbs by Leah Kaminsky

By • on May 4, 2012

Since the car crash, Lisa’s love life had cycled in strict monthly units. They strung together like cheap Christmas lights on cinder block dorm walls:

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2 poems by Katelyn C. Dececco

2 poems by Katelyn C. Dececco

By • on April 30, 2012

Wallets How often wallets open for women wilting green paper like the tongues of tired dogs placating the hands of their masters But what do we command that

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Ghosts Aren’t Real by Eric Mitchel Brown

He heard a shifting above his head. A settling in the ceiling. More of a shove, really, laced with the sound of a dragging cord. Like a knotted rope being pulled from a main hull. He paused and waited,

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3 Poems by Carey Glenn Smith

happy aesthetic couple He beat his former mistress, his wife, with a microphone. She bore whippletree lashes and slurped bruises, speaking deadly of mediocre fidelity. Her lashes batted to stand in for

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American Desire by Jekwu Anyaegbuna

Okwuchukwu is going to America. He doesn’t even know what he’s going there to do, but he’s going. He knows he won’t be idle. His mother has been there since 2001, babysitting and sending dollars

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