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EPSILON & CLOSTROMONIA by Shy Watson
May 25, 2022
Clostromonia was beautiful. She was big-breasted and a fine cook. Epsilon’s fellow noblemen regularly begged for slices of her bimbleberry pie. “Ay, Epsilon,” they’d say, “I’m going to snatch the pie from your maiden’s windowsill along with the big-breasted beauty who made it!” In these moments, Epsilon felt proud.
IRA RAT on film with Rebecca Gransden
May 24, 2022
Growing up surrounded by people constantly quoting the latest gross-out comedy or something like Star Wars it makes me feel a little dirty whenever I say a line from a movie.
CRUSH by Kelsi Lindus
May 23, 2022
On the white sand, I stand with a man who doesn’t love me and we watch a bald eagle–big as a boy–bent over something bloody.
ÔM by Lily Thu Fierro
May 20, 2022
2:00 A.M. Tonight’s crowd is mostly gone. Good tips. No grabs. I did alright.
CARMEN GOING UP by Sara Torres-Albert
May 18, 2022
When the man from 10C did not say hello to Carmen in the elevator, it barely bothered her at all; she was decorated to her chin with packages—housewarming gifts from one friend or another—and probably looked too compromised for conversation
HAPPY SOON; A REVIEW OF BUD SMITH’S “TEENAGER” by Evan Williams
May 17, 2022
To be happy soon is to acknowledge that one is not happy now. It means to be in constant search for the conclusion of soon.
THE SONG IN YOUR HEAD by Curtis Smith
May 16, 2022
In you, the beating of wings, the ticking of clocks, a heart that’s limped through another day. In you, the swirl of a thousand words you’ve said and ten thousand you haven’t.
THE GROOM by Paul Ruta
May 13, 2022
I just work here, okay, so it weren’t my job to speak up when I dug the ring out of Prince’s hoof with my pick, packed into the groove there with the mud and manure. I stuck it in my pocket and said nothing cause they’d only take it away from me and they got no right. Anyhow it’s just a plain wedding band, but solid gold I reckon, so it’s gonna be worth something.