WISHES / WILLIAM L. ALTON

Cold winds fall down from the mountains, turns on the river and runs into the trees. Soon the sun will drop into the ocean. Rain coats the world in water. She says she’s dying. I don’t know her well, but we smoke
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PLEA / MARK JACKLEY

To the dumpster in the alley behind the Salvation Army, the blue one for donations of clothing, someone had taped a scarecrow on his pole who’d seen better days, missing an eye, starved for straw, hands bound together in supplication. I tried
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THE MAIN SPRING / RICH MURPHY

After the Great War and the boom back home men were big babies or dead from the waist down. (A long grave along the Western Front mined ghosts for the factories within thighs.) When the séance to resurrect bodies was published and
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Issue #2

THE STILLNESS OF APPLES, OR JEAN GENET MEETS THE SPHINX / RICHARD PEABODY SHARKS AND LAMPREYS: A STORY IN TEN PARTS / CHRIS SMITH NIETZSCHE’S BREAKDOWN  /  JB MULLIGAN THE MAIN SPRING  /  RICH MURPHY EVERY WINDOW OPENS  /  CATHY BARBER PLEA  /  MARK
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HEAT / CHRIS CASTLE

They both had their way of looking at the heat. The girl called it a heavy fog waiting in the corridor of the delivery room. He called it a bully’s last words before the home bell rang out. A long dull thud
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