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March 1, 2016 |

Wow and Flutter #2: Tracy Chapman

Tyler Koshakow

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Not long after my father died, my mother bought a brand-new bright-red Toyota Celica GT. She also started exercising regularly—a mile a day in the pool—and spent more time shopping for

Wow and Flutter #2: Tracy Chapman photo
This May Surprise You photo

February 29, 2016 | Fiction

This May Surprise You

Amy Silverberg

My friend, she wants to win a man over with a story. “He loves to read,” she says, “and I want to impress him. Could you write me something?”

The Butcher photo

February 26, 2016 | Poetry

The Butcher

Teresa Plana

 

Once a year I decide
I don't love you. It's

today. Watch me
not make you breakfast.

The child is only
this flesh I grew

and you tore 
out of me.

Now it stirs in the

Alpha Centauri, Taylor Rain photo

February 25, 2016 | Poetry

Alpha Centauri, Taylor Rain

Vishal Narang

 

I've seen my friend Taylor sleeping
mouth open sometimes, one time with a boner

Whenever I've awoken him, he has
acknowledged my presence immediately

and put his hand in the