Issue 2: March '06
The Noun That Verbs Your World
(de)Classified
Shattered Beer Bottles
by Sonia Gutiérrez • 03.03.2006A las ratas con tres patas y a mis comadres Las Chillonas, Chingonsísimas Mujeres/ To the three-legged rats and my comadres Las Chillonas, Chingonsísimas Mujeres. Rated G, PG, PG-13, R,... more »
Poetry
Hot Heat Blues
by Matthew Kaberline • 03.03.2006Sun, who asked you To sizzle all kinds Of sinister on us? Sear solid ground Like a T-bone steak, Like skillet cakes? Sun, you got me hot Under the collar, hot Enough to break Eggs and... more »
Short Short
Jealousy
by Nathan Long • 03.03.2006Don’t save your jealousy for too long, for it will turn yellow with time, like old piss, and begin to produce heat and grow gaseous. Jealousy will develop a smell, a sweet, odiferous, bacterial scent that will leak through the tightest container.... more »
Fiction
The Damned Eleven
by Jim Meirose • 03.03.2006Builder came in the battered door, sat down in his rickety wooden folding chair, and opened the black and grey covered book titled THE STARS. He turned the pages slowly and carefully as though they would fall out if turned too roughly. Words came up... more »
Criticism
Laughing the Way to Social Change: Welty’s Curtain of Green and McPherson’s Elbow Room
by Lizzie Stark • 03.03.2006Separated by race, gender, and some thirty five years, Eudora Welty (b. 1909) and James Alan McPherson (b. 1943) both write within the tradition of American protest fiction, employing comedic techniques to rip the veil of ignorance from their... more »
